The "hackers" here who are interested in this article, fall in one or more of these categories:

a) they already use Linux, but want to buy this anyway just to encourage the ecosystem

b) they want to recommend it for the normies they know, who find Linux, or gaming on Linux, daunting

So my point still stands.

it's not like I'd ever expect only real hacker news here (whatever that even means) but let's be honest for a moment this is just an ordinary consumer item lacking anything novel or innovative ... it's basically just a very large smartphone with a game library for an app store.

	▲	d3Xt3r a day ago \| parent [-]
		I don't disagree, but what this does have is commercial backing and branding, and an excuse for game devs to target it - which benefits the Linux gaming ecosystem as a whole (and non-gaming ecosystem too, like look at all the improvements coming to AMD and KDE users, thanks to Valve's involvement).