MS could be offering marketing fund deals, I’m not privy to such business decisions. But even if we assume they don’t, these manufacturers are in a clear disadvantage compared to Valve.

They won’t be able to compete on price with the deck even if they go with linux.

Naturally they should choose linux IMO, but they not neccessarily have the same interests as me.

Steam has the steam store to recoup this cost. This is the same model MS and Sony follows to sell the hardware at or below mfg price.

But MSI, Asus and others don’t have their own platform, so they have to sell for more to maintain their bottom line.

LLMs generate signal shaped noise.

Transformers were originally made for translation not whatever it’s currently shoehorned into.