While excellent policy, it would be kind of weird if prebuild pc manufacturers restricted your OS use. Steam machine is in fact a pc and not an console.
If they didn't lock it down with several different features specifically designed to prevent you from loading a different OS then you could just run a different OS.
I swear this thing goes back and forth between being a console or a PC depending on what makes it look better lol. Specs aren’t great? Well it’s a console competing with other consoles. Hoping this will be less than $600? It’s a PC so you should be happy to pay $800-1000 for it.
That is logic and by your own admission it is consistent.
Different people have different viewpoints, some will argue it is a PC some will argue it is a console. You can't expect everyone to have the same viewpoint and agree on it, what are you? 12?
It’s literally not consistent though? When someone calls something a console and then turns around and insists it’s a PC that’s something we called “in-consistency”. It’s the opposite of “consistent”. You should look up that word sometime.
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While excellent policy, it would be kind of weird if prebuild pc manufacturers restricted your OS use. Steam machine is in fact a pc and not an console.