They can ignore the lawsuits if they want, but Valve can’t sell anything with the screens if Samsung gets their way.

Also, I undervolted the CPU, GPU and SOC by -50mV in the BIOS before doing the testing, this resulted in a 2 FPS increase from stock.

2 FPS both with and without the repasting?

Windows has its fair share of issues, but in terms of compatibility it’s clearly better than SteamOS. I’ve had more issues with games through SteamOS than I’ve had on Windows in the 15+ years of primarily being a PC gamer.

in another year or two will be close enough to a plug and play console experience that they’ll be attractive to the masses.

Think that’s wildly optimistic personally. For Steam games it should be better, but anything that requires a launcher will still have issues, as will other storefronts. SteamOS just won’t have the market share to encourage everyone to really focus on Linux support. They need to get to the stage where it’s like Windows and everything works, and I just don’t see it.

For them, a box roughly equivalent to a PS5 or little better (running a similar APU), basically being a console that can double as a computer sold at office PC prices (~$500) would be huge

As far as I’m aware there’s nothing that even remotely matches the PS5/XSX APUs, so Valve would likely have to have their own order. Microsoft and Sony are losing money on those systems too, and that’s with 25-50x the projected sales of any Steam system. Valve would have to swallow massive losses to make those even remotely viable. They also lack the USP of the Deck in that it’s portable. People like playing their games portably, and that helps look past some of the inherent issues that PC gaming has. There’s nothing special about a wee PC in a box, it’s literally just a more inconvenient gaming platform at that point for most.