Steamroller is a great name.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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Should've put wheels on it to make it even better
I'm on the reservation list for a Steam Machine and personally have no regrets, but I'm so happy these exist. I don't think it has to be a big competition, but between not appealing to a mass audience and have limited stock, the Steam Machine may have inadvertently ushered in a prebuilt Linux PC revolution, and that's a wonderful thing.
inadvertently
I suspect Valve knew what they were doing, and while they probably care more about having prebuilts with Steam preinstalled and convenient to use, they included desktop mode in SteamOS and made sure the steam deck was open to tinkering.
Can we finally say it? Is the year of the Linux desktop finally upon us??
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You’ve been able to make a low powered Linux machine whenever you wanted to. The Steam machine didn’t change anything.
Not everyone wants to build their own PC, and that's okay. Other use cases exist besides just what the hardcore PC crowd wants. There was a penguin-shaped gap in the prebuilt market, and now the Linux gap is closing, thankfully.
You didn’t need to build your own pc to install Linux on a prebuilt pc either 🤣
Not everyone wants to figure out an os install
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And unlike Nintendo switch, you can play games you bought 15 years ago.. and use other stores or emulation
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It feels so needlessly aggressive. Valve openly stated that there are alternatives to the Steam Machine, and they aren't trying to own the market. Calling your prebuilt the "Steamroller" is kind of a dickhead move. That's like Del Taco coming out with a deep friend taco shell and calling it "Fuck your Chalupa, bitch."
ITT: People who have no idea how marketing and advertising work.
That's not really how I read it. Clearly they are leveraging vale products, (steam is) so include steam in the name. They probably want this name to evoke strength and power, so what's something with steam in the name that is powerful? A steamroller.
I don't think it is meant to roll steam!
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So I took it as rolling your own steam, not aggressive.
Eh, I see your point, but it feels pretty tongue-in-cheek to me. Steamroller is just a cool name that implies the thing is a workhorse.
I’m not sure I’d be able to order a “fuck your chalupa, bitch” with a straight face, but I’ll try.
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I have to ask, are META PCs affiliated in any way with Zuckerberg?
No. This company actually had a legal dispute with Meta when they rebranded from Facebook: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/3983498/facebook-meta-name-trademark-battle/
Yeah, unfortunate naming if you ask me. "Meta" is just tainted by the zuck now.
No, they are a completely separate company. They have a YouTube channel as well, and I find their YouTube Shorts videos quite entertaining and informative.
1300 and only 16gb of ram and a GPU on par with a RTX 3060 / RX 6650 . Brutal.
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I looked not long ago for a steamos iso… does that exist somewhere?
You are the man (or woman or whatever).
Thanks!!!
well that didn't take very long
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