SteamOS
SteamDeck doesn’t even have secure boot in the BIOS lol
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fortunately, Microsoft is too incompetent to pull this off on Windows.
They tried. See the metro app push in Windows 8+. But it’s kind of incredible how much they permanently bungled it.
And if Windows doesn’t do it, hardware makers aren’t really interested in that sort of thing.
Stuff like SteamOS does worry me a tiny bit. It’s obviously fine now, but I can see a future where, say, Valve (or any hardware seller with some kind of successful storefront) starts to not like rising competition on their own stuff.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
MonkeyBrawler@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Microsoft is incompetent, and Valve is concerning? Lol
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean we already have that with Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation
MuttMutt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And these devices are controlled both hardware and software by an oem.
PC’s are hardware and software agnostic. Some OEM’s have done weird stuff with the hardware and bios/uefi to prevent users from upgrading and don’t some things but as long as you can buy a motherboard, gpu, ram, and other parts is going to be tough to convince three manufacturers to prevent an end user from using it how they see fit.