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[Discussion] Would you buy a Steam smart phone? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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A lot of older PC games can run just fine on modern phone hardware. I'd buy a SteamOS version of a phone that has some modular or built-in set of buttons and analog sticks. I don't know how the app ecosystem would work for sensitive things like banking but it's mostly a minor issue for me.

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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Yeah this is the important bit to me. Valve does good work and contributes to FOSS, sure, but I'm not going to blindly follow everything they do. Right now the Linux phone space just flat out isn't viable for daily drivers. If Valve are the first ones to really address this, cool! But I'm not going to put them on a pedestal over any other options.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Considering that they are the only pro-Linux company in a position to start delivering to my country, that might just be my only option.
So, as long as they let me install custom stuff without restriction and have enough Linux support for the hardware they choose, they don't even need to do any special repairability stuff for me to happily give them my money.

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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

Oh for sure. They're no saints but they're very far from the worst option out there, and they've been making some massive contributions to the linux space in general. I'd gladly grab something they made if they happen to be one of the first on the scene - look at the Steam Deck and what it's done for the handheld space.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

Had they added a cell SIM slot to the deck, I would have just bought that.

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