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You probably shouldn't talk authoritatively on a topic you clearly know nothing about.
Source: I'm a senior systems engineer.
And if you're going to flaunt your title you should probably actually...you know...say something that pertains to that knowledge you have.
This just seems like blind fanboyism. As great as the steamdeck is there's no reason to act like it's doing things it's not actually doing. It was designed the way it was because it had to be, there doesn't need to be anything whimsical about it.
They may have done a poor job of explains thing, but they are right. Secure boot is a system that every manufactured computer in the last 5+ years has support. The only reason you can install anything but Windows on most PCs is because the manufacturer let you, but they could take it away in an instant by requiring secure boot and only allowing Microsoft's signatures to boot an OS. Valve could have done the same thing if they chose. That's basically how the XBox works these days, and it wouldn't surprise me if the PlayStation is the same, since it is x64 as well.
Ok so you just think this is fanboyism, your Right and you are maybe right but.. You don't have to make false arguments to say this..
They could have put energy, to mitigate piracy and being in the same state as android devices, where not every user root it to put on it lineageos for example.
They designed it, soft and hardware, and they did no effort at all on this side.
You can see on this, a sign as OP, or you can don't mind about it and think steam just didn't put effort on it by lack of time or resources maybe.
But don't say false things to make your point true.
I did post an exact description a bit higher above, but you focussed on the one detail that really doesn't matter in this equation (ARM vs x86, even though it's exactly the same in that regard, and there are also x86 Android devices) and neither read nor understood the rest of my answer.
And you used that missing knowledge on your side to invalidate my answer without even understanding what it was about.
And you could, very big revelation, also just google before posting nonsense.
u/EatYouWell responded exactly the right way.
Buddy, a very large part of my job is locking down Linux as much as possible while still allowing it to do it's job. I can confidently say that not locking things down was a decision that was made, not a restraint of the system they used.
I'm not saying that they didn't lock it down to allow piracy, which is actually a really dumb take. They probably did it to allow moding and allow it to be used as a desktop.