Some Steam Machines come with Windows pre-installed, so you wouldn’t have to put it on the machine.

1. The very fact that you can build your own Steam Machine makes it run non-mainstream hardware.

As a game developer, let me tell you, there’s no need for a conspiracy. The question isn’t why Linux hasn’t taken off with gaming - you might as well ask why it’s actually got more games being made for it than can be justified by its tiny user base.

“an industry too slow and paid off to support it”

Yeah I don’t get it. Its like what if your PC only ran steam but with less games. That is essentially what it is because I have a dual boot of Steam OS.

So, it’s a Linux PC.

The biggest problem with the alienware steam machines wasn’t mentioned-it comes with a custom made, integrated gaming video card. That means that when you want a new video card, you will have to buy a new system. One of the entire ideas of steam machines was upgradeabilty, and if you can’t upgrade your graphics card…