Ah yes, nothing better than getting a heat stroke playing Beat Saber when it is 40°C in the apartment. /s

I don’t think real rebels use GitHub, though: https://github.com/Anon-Gratis

KDE Connect and SyncThing

I mean, those are bots, right? No one is so pathetic that they have to make this ridiculous connection on a Github issue about vibe coding. Right?..

Instead of a battery + USB power supply, you have a “normal” power supply. The controller parts of the Deck are basically in the Steam Controller, plus the dock/dongle. The Machine has a huge chunk of metal on the chips to dissipate the additional heat, which also adds to the cost. All of this still needs to fit in an incredibly small form factor and has better, more expensive components plus more RAM in total. Add ~20% VAT because that’s how prices are calculated in the EU.
I say the cheapest we might see for a variant with included contoller is 900€ and that’s probably if we’re lucky.

Well, here goes the hope for a sub-1000€ Steam machine.

(Edit: Fixed image)

Honestly, don’t use hobby distros unless it’s just for testing purposes. They will fail you in the end, always.
That being said, if you want to check out another hobby distro, PikaOS is pretty fucking cool: https://wiki.pika-os.com/

I don’t think you responded to the comment you actually wanted to, but:

--privileged implies access to all host devices, so any --device directive should be redundant.
Regarding the user permissions, the current user in the container is root which should theoretically have all access it needs, but it’s a good suggestion and I’m going to take a look at it.

I trust Valve not to exfiltrate my Steam credentials or account details (credit card number, home address). I wouldn’t trust a third party with that.

This suggests passing through dbus to the container. I will take a look at that.

If true that’s somewhat disturbing, but I still care about verified publishers nonetheless…

AFAIK no such configuration options exist for distrobox. It’s intentionally designed to not offer any isolation.

Then I have to pass my GPU to the VM exclusively. There are also memory latency problems. Plus I have to reserve ressources from my host system. I’ve been a user of VFIO setups in the past.

Distrobox basically has no isolation at all. Giving it another home directory doesn’t restrict access to the real home directory. Other directories are also not restricted (/media, /mnt, /var/log). --unshare-all doesn’t change anything about that fact.

In case you haven’t noted, this isn’t about ease of use. (Also Steam isn’t verified on Flathub and I only use verified apps.)

Proprietary software bad.
Proprietary software in containment not so bad.

I tried running chromium, removing :home and was still able save and open webpages in ~/test.html. However, this happened through the native file picker dialog.

It’s not proprietary, though.

We know all of this already (even more than what’s listed actually) for like 6 months or so.