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Valve adds CD-ROM drive support to Steam Frame kernel, took less than ten minutes — update comes one day after user requests for capability in the Steam Community forum (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago (1 child)

Any CD or DVD can be ripped into a mountable/runnable .iso file. There's no reason to keep the CD/DVD ROM hardware connected.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 point 5 days ago

Only SSD space would limit you. And I guess physical media being easier to manage for longer term storage.

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