Steam machine it is then.
Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games
Submitted 10 hours ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://80.lv/articles/microsoft-confirms-project-helix-a-next-gen-xbox-that-can-run-pc-games
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Chivera@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 minutes ago
Yep, A shittier steam machine. I wonder who would buy this after seeing MS abandoning their XBox brand. Also I bet it’s going to be full with GenAI garbage.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
oh boy, so you can be prevented from freely modding your pc games too?
Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Running what, Windows? 🤣
0x0@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
Just wait until HP releases their new Hinge Machine, with their new hpstore that will have unique experiences and hinge content! Rumours has it that Dell is working on their new Deli Shop as well but rumours are scarce due to pork issues
radiouser@crazypeople.online 7 hours ago
These assholes spent the mid-2000s trying to kill PC gaming just to push their console. It didn’t work and now, nearly 20 years later, they’re crawling back begging PC gamers for attention.
Enjoy catching up.
eli@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Personally I hope no one buys this “console”. There’s been way too many rumors and general discussions that this will be the “last Xbox” and Microsoft has already lost the “first party” game front.
There is zero reason to buy Xbox at this point. Game Pass is stupidly expensive(and you can’t even buy Gold separately anymore). This new “console” is supposed to be stupidly expensive as well.
I would hope this would force people to just switch to PC, but the hard heads will buy Xbox and the noobs will buy PlayStation.
I loved my original Xbox and the 360, but Microsoft has been on a steep decline since. The writing’s been on the wall for a long time.
redbrick@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Okay, so microslop’s next console is …a PC…right? Hope it comes with office.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Its going to come with Winslop 12 and you gotta pay $20/m or the power button wont work.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Sounds like they said it backwards. Didn’t they mean, it’s a PC that will play your Xbox games?
NoPanko@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Nah this is Microsoft in 2026 so its an Agentic Copilot Machine that might play a pc game if you construct you prompt properly
baronvonj@piefed.social 9 hours ago
So 25 years after the first Xbox .. they’re finally realizing the original promise?
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
I worked at Microsoft in the early 2000 era. before Xbox. I did the top level os consumer support stuff. not for corporate but for the general public that uses the os support channel. one day I was in a discussion group and we talked about what you think about the future kinda thing. it was supposed to be a relaxed discussion but once I brought up Linux and older hardware, I felt the temperature changed. it was later explained that I was black listed for my argument because it expressed that flaws in Windows and the potential of Linux. Years later I joked with a friend who still had an MS job, that putting the Linux subsystem in Windows was admitting I was right back then… this new Xbox coming out in competition to the steam system just makes me feel so justified. Microsoft will always be a second best because they can’t break the internal mindset that they are the top
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Um…when it comes to desktop OS’s, they ARE the top, and always have been.
And even if you remove windows entirely, Apple becomes number one. Not Linux.
Last I checked, the highest Linux as a desktop usershare ever got was something pathetically small like 5%
And the reason for this is Linux developers design their OS as if the user knows what they’re doing.
Windows designs their OS as if the user is clueless.
So users who know how to use their computer, use Linux. And idiots use Windows. Well it turns out the world is full of idiots.
I tried explaining how to install a program in terminal to someone who’s never touched linux.
“sudo apt install program”
And her response was “ooooh, no no no no no! That’s too much for all that! Ain’t nobody got time fo’ all dat!”
I have no idea which OS she’s using these days. Haven’t talked to her in years.
But if I had to bet my life savings, I’d bet she’s still never touched Linux.
I’ve said it a million times. The year of linux will come 5 years AFTER a distro is released which not only holds the users hand, but handcuffs it. Does EVERYTHING for the user, so the user never ever ever ever has to even know how to do anything. Update a driver? They don’t even know how to do it in windows! You think they’re going to try their hand at updating kernals and such in Linux?
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Windows absolutely does not design their UI as if the user is clueless
It is more userfriendly, than most linux desktop environments…
But they got 2 settings menus, and several others hidden away. Sometimes the crashes without any explanation or obscure non userfriendly error codes
Games are sometimes installed where you decide
Other times its in APPDATA which for some reason is a hidden folder… why!?
Its full of old legacy code incl legacy programs and so on. Useless bloat.
My mother asked me about finding files on her computer yesterday. Word documents. She has been working an office , on windows for like 30 years… but now word uses the cloud.
Anyways
My biggest problem with linux is a lot of programs are just “installed” and who the fuck knows where
And a lot of programs save data into some folder… who the fuck knows where
So many hidden folders with obscure or meaningless names. What does more letters cost? Make it easier for the user… nobody knows what’s in folders named:
Etc
Local (all folders are local ffs)
Lib64
Run
Srv
Lib
Opt
Sbin
Var
They probably make sense for some linux kernel developers but my software utilize some of these and IMO the names should make sense for everyone, seeing as MY files are in some of them
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 7 hours ago
I think you’re talking about market share and the person you’re responding to is talking capabilities. Best is not equivalent to most popular, and seldom if ever has been.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
So to summarize,
When you look at this tiny specific section of all computer hardware, then windows is still on top.
Okey.
Android, Robot vacuums, smart tvs, some airconditioning and air fryers, smartfridges, doorbell cameras… they most likely all run a version of the linux kernel. Consumers own more Linux than windows devices and don’t even know it.
And this was already true before valve quite literally started creating consumer gaming hardware with a full linux desktop experience, of which again some people have these and don’t even realise it is.
yakko@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
How long can laurels be rested on? Apparently at least 25 years.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
it’s a life changing event getting blacklisted from something like your career goal. I found a more rewarding career path but it still hurts that I was trying to make Microsoft a better company and I was outed for trying to argue that Linux wasn’t going away and Microsoft had to recognize it’s strengths
redbrick@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
While it’s possible Linux is a better system for games…most games (that’s are awesome…) run on windows…with very little Linux support.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Steam fixes a lot of that with Proton.
The stuff you can’t really do on Linux is anything with Kernel Anti-Cheat, which you don’t want infesting your device anyways.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You missed the memo. Windows is now the Linux gaming subsystem.
Resistance is futile.