The difference is that AMD is marketing 8GB dGPU's at exorbitant prices, upselling them as capable of something they're not. And if most people on Steam still game just fine with 3060's, then it's safe to assume 8GB is enough.
most popular gpu on steam is 3060 which launched at $329. midrange is completely ignored because its easier to price gouge, hence a midrange card costing fucking 330 dollars. new users do not want to spend 330 dollars for one part of a gaming machine. steam machine will probably be around $500
this is 8gb because it's not advertised as the greatest shit of all time that can do 64 terashits per megafart with ray traced ai upscaling. and because most people don't care. the people that do care about jewish upselling to 16gb models are enthusiasts who already have machines
640x480 thads unaffected, as god intended.
AMD and Nvidia get ridiculed because they are trying to sell cards that should cost ~$200 for $350 with 8gb of vram and claim its the latest and greatest and is totally better than the previous cards.
Insert meme about trans woman retro gamer here.
The original 3060 was a 12 GiB card which is indeed enough for most titles even way beyond 1080p.
Bazzite is a troon distro, sure, but it's a dedicated gaming distro- the desktop is an afterthought just for configuration. ChimeraOS has neat patches, but didn't really configure well for me. CachyOS is Arch, which is a steeper learning curve. Bazzite just tends to be the default other than SteamOS Holo and has an easy install for Emudeck. That's probably why GN chose it.
according to that fat nigger its because something something it keeps results consistent
Steve: "If more users grit their teeth through some of the initial learning pains, we think that might mean that we can kind of escape from some of the windows issues as a community and count that as a win"
Look, nowadays it's trendy to glorify Linux and despise Windows. It's not about whether or not Linux is a viable alternative to Windows. It's about having a reason to moan and complain.
A couple of observations.
They don't even know how to change Windows 11 personalization settings, let alone boot into a USB drive to reinstall it. Yet at the same time they're hoping for SteamOS to happen, as if they had what it takes to install it.
Every single idiot that froths at the mouth at the thought of Windows but lacks the basic skills needed to even try and make Windows less shit. Two digit IQ mongoloids that are too retarded to live.
Doesn't matter, Windows bad, Linux good. No thinking, just rage and emotions.
Counterpoint: Steam is the largest gaming platform in the world, and they show no sign of stopping the linux shilling anytime soon.
Except Valve isn't shilling Linux. They're shilling their hardware. That's the issue.
Which is the only way you are going to get an appreciable amount of end users to actually use linux. The only alternative is to just give up and never hope for anything.
The big misunderstanding there is that while yes, if you use Steam hardware you're going to be using Linux, this won't apply to the hardware you already own that's running Windows, and this is what people are bitching about the most. They don't want to buy a new computer, they want their current fancy schmancy gaming rig to run something that's not Windows. With x86, the only option is Linux. But what GN is trying to do is to fit a square peg into a round hole. The reason SteamOS is this good is because it's tailored for Valve's hardware. It's not something that Valve could just copy over into a generic distro, or someone else could copy over from Valve's contributions. Even in this thread you have difference in opinions as to which distro should be used for gaming, because it'll always be a mess with Linux. Too many cooks spoiled the broth, but people want a perfect meal out of it.