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I really hope to get one of these at some point

I’m tired of waiting for valve and soon will be getting one on the grey market.

Waiting for what?

The Deck is not sold in most parts of the world. This includes certain parts of Asia, Latin america, Australia, some European countries, and most of Africa. Essentially, if you’re not from the US, Canada, China or western Europe, buying a Deck directly from Valve is impossible. Import and distribution is also an impossibility. Region locking it still one of Valve’s biggest hurdles.

So, to acquire one I have to pay an overhead to a reseller willing to sello it to me, foot the import bill, the local tariff, pay the courier, and at the end of all the device will be under no guarantee, support or protection.

They really couldn’t, it’s just a Linux PC. Worst case scenario you could format the drive and install regular arch Linux on it (SteamOS is arch based, and you can add the repos for all of the custom steam packages to a standard arch install). Unlike the switch, you have direct, firmware level control over the hardware, which is why I bought it. I want to encourage more manufacturers to not lock down their hardware

@gh0stcassette @dustyData or Manjaro + KDE as they recommend for their dev environment.

I don’t like Manjaro very much, it’s Basically just EndeavorOS with extra hassle imo (delayed updates leading to AUR packages breaking), but you can 100% do this if you like Manjaro.