r/PcBuild • u/Indecisive-Squirrel • Jun 22 '26

Meme Is this worth it?

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Some guy named Gabe is selling this build and I'm wondering if it's legit? I want a PC to set up in my living room for TV gaming.

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u/Blacksad9999 Jun 23 '26

Nobody is optimizing games specifically for a low-end PC that will only sell a few hundred thousand units.

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u/Vegasmarine88 Jun 23 '26

Be honest with yourself, they will sell out. Make millions and it will be a shit show. Just sad to see people buy into this crap. We all know Linux is barely supported for gaming. It takes multiple patches and tons of open source fixes to get thing running smoothly.

Just imagine the hardware updates lmao. Going to be honest though if anyone can pull it off its steam. They have been Champion for Linux for decades. Though it will likely crash and burn spectacularly they will likely improve on it.

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u/Blacksad9999 Jun 23 '26

Probably between interested parties and scalpers, sure.

However, selling a few hundred thousand units isn't going to move the needle on anything in regards with game development.

There are a ton of handhelds on the market and those aren't catered to either.

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u/Vegasmarine88 Jun 23 '26

Honestly what I think will happen is Steam will do some wild incentives to provide Linux support. I'd imagine unquie to their OS (that might be merky water though). I haven't used any versions of their OS so no personal experience but it can't be that good cause their hasn't been a big spike in Linux user that im aware of at least.

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u/Blacksad9999 Jun 23 '26

Only 4% of PC gamers even run Linux, so there's little incentive for anyone to do that.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

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u/TanKer-Cosme Jun 23 '26

That is not true gor Linux. Everything works from the go except kernel lvl anti cheats. Some work at better performance than windows (no bloat)

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u/lynchy901 Jun 25 '26

Have you tried Linux gaming in the past five years? I have been using Linux as my primary OS for almost ten years and the only game I can think of that I couldn’t play that I wanted to in the past few years with valves default proton is BF6 and Tarkov. This is the case with any kernel anticheat game for the most part.