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Phoronix article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026

Also listed here: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

Valve has already sent support for the new Steam Controller upstream: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Steam-Controller-SDL

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[–] anzo@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fwiw, GOG has no DRM for their titles (its own niche space, not competition). Not sure if they charge 30% too, but even in such case they're giving you more because of the lack of DRM.

Steam is quite virtuous, they gave us Proton. But is far from being based.

[–] ysjet@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

GOG has no DRM, but they also don't offer the same kind of services, like workshop, updates, cloud sync, etc.

Not trying to say they're worse or anything, I love GOG, but it's really kind of comparing apples to oranges here.

[–] strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

GoG also sold the modern hitman games which have DRM.

There are also many games on Steam that are DRM free, you may need to use the Steam Client to download them (but possibly also Steam CMD) but then you can copy the files off as a backup and run them without Steam

[–] Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Can confirm. Serious Sam Classics are copy and paste-easy to share