Your intuition is correct that the steam machine will go up in price but I think It’ll still have an edge over building your own PC for a couple of reasons:

1. Valve has economies of scale and can make contracts directly with Dram manufacturers/distributers

2. The Steam Machine is just already cheaper to make than a pre-built because it has a custom APU (rather than a standalone graphics card). Not to mention running Linux means not having to pay for a windows licence

3. The Steam Machine only has 16 GB of RAM. Most everyone I know building gaming PCs with DDR5 are using 32 GB

The steam machine is not a cutting edge device, but its lower end capabilities may become normalised if building a new PC becomes cost prohibitive. It may force the whole gaming industry to take a step back for a few years. And I mean, the steam Machine can play Cyberpunk 2077 at 4k 60 fps with FSR upscaling so its got enough performance for lots of consumers

I also think this would be positive honestly

If building a PC does in fact get too expensive for individuals, I wonder what that will do for the sale of the Steam Machine which should (theoretically) get people into PC gaming for much cheaper. Maybe all-in-one pre-built PC’s like the steam machine become the norm…idk

Good stuff to know, thanks for the reply

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6K1LTCNTgCE

This is for PopOS!/Ubuntu but should work for Bazzite/fedora. Make sure to change/edit the commands as necessary. I mount my second drive within the home folder so steam reads it easier but you do what you like.

Basicly the video is going to show you how to edit Fstab. Windows automatically detects second drives whereas Linux makes you add the drive to the Fstab file. Personally I wish it was as easy as windows but here we are