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This kinda blew up. For the record, there are probably decent use cases. I'm just befuddled by its popularity. The best I've seen is PC games on a TV more easily than moving an entire setup. But the form factor removes a lot of the upgradeability and repairablity that makes PCs so great, it has standard hardware like a console but still traps you in a (admittedly slightly better) ecosystem, it has Linux but masks it so well most people won't notice or care. If it pushes gaming to a more linux-friendly place, great, but it feels like it's packaging it to the point that it won't push the player-base, only devs. It feels like it packages almost all of the limitations of the 3 groups with very few of the best benefits. Truly do hope I'm wrong, I often am.
Hooking a whole desktop to a TV is intrusive with most desktop form factors.
Most people who want a console don't care about upgradability or repairability, and that's certainly not the main thing that "makes PCs so great."
Most people gaming on PC are equally "trapped in an ecosystem." This has a desktop mode if need be, but hardly anyone does games outside of Steam.
"It has Linux but most users won't notice or care" is a double positive.
"It won't push the player base, only the devs" is a double positive.
The point of a console isn't to make people into more technical proponents of open source projects. It's to play games.
And if it's competing in the console market, especially for people who aren't terribly interested in the "Call of Duty" type AAA titles of today, it seems like a perfect fit.