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  • 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.






  • The IP address of the machine you’re connecting to has probably changed. If the previous had a DHCP lease, that wouldn’t migrate with the new router.

    Go on your Windows machine and open up a command prompt. Type in “ipconfig” (no quotes) and validate the machines IP address. It should start with 192 or 10 most likely. Maybe 172.

    If it’s the same as it used to be, that’s not the issue. But my bet is that it’s changed.