LINUX Unplugged
673: 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details
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Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine.
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- Texas Linux Fest 2026 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-01 23:59 (US/Central)
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- carolinacon/infra: Infrastructure used to run parts of carolina con
- Valve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexus
- SteamOS 3.8 - Steam News
- Valve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUs
- Steam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM - Tom's Hardware
- Steam Controller developer interview — Valve talks design, the learning curve, and the lack of kernel drivers | Tom's Hardware
- Valve Developer Hardware Talk PDF
- 2015 Steam Machine - Wikipedia
- meshcore-ha — Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks.
- Re-Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA.
- SONE on Flathub
- Re-Pick: high-tide — Libadwaita TIDAL client for Linux
- Pick: coppwr — coppwr displays and provides control over many aspects of PipeWire as directly as possible in an organized and visual way. It can help with debugging and diagnosing a PipeWire setup or with developing software that interacts with PipeWire.
- coppwr on Flathub
- Pick: dn-tool — dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon — which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.