I fully agree that VALVe gave Linux gaming a huge boost, but that was not the goal of the SteamMachine. It was rather a necessary step in Giving the SteamMachine a library of games. It has also lead to a number of linux games being bound to steam.

VALVe used linux because it was the cheapest, simplest way to reach their goal, which was to counter a possible walled garden from Microsoft with their own walled garden.

Excluding the fact UWP Apps are, currently, a poorer version of standard programs, I'd rather live in a Windows Store garden, than one built by VALVe.

Windows Store offers 10 concurrent uses per game, while Steam restricts you to 1 single instance of a single games from your entire library. Steam, isn't a Walled Garden, its a prison cell with a potted plant. And people exalt Gabe, because you get to choose which potted plant.

At least I got Alienware's Alpha out of it.

Not as powerful as I'd like as a main gaming system, BUT it was priced like the low-end laptop I'd have otherwise bought, and has 2x the CPU and a way, way, way better GPU.

Just wish I could get GOG games working with my Steamlink :-/

Can't you steamroll (pun intended ;) ) the System with an Windows installation disk?

IIRC Its a custom linux on an ARM processor.

Apples to Tires comparisson.
Different marketplace for one.
A digital economic marketplace where advertisement is much more ingrained reaching more people more often than ever with continued exponential population growth.
Bring it into context of market size ratio & weekly income to rationalize what a respective size chunk of an avarege persons budget each would take first if you even want to get close to your blaze` data being relevant.

Anothere Software company tries..and fails...with a move to Hardware. Old,Old, story.