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Valve, please partner with Framework. I think this could be a great partnership in the future and the whole ecosystem as a whole.

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What would a Framework partnership accomplish? Ship SteamOS as a preinstalled option for their laptops?

That actually would be a cool idea and doable.

Framework could already do that if they want.

You seem to be forgetting the framework desktop which is very similar in form factor to the new steam machine: https://frame.work/desktop

I 100% see the Framework Desktop and Steam Machine less as competitors and more as separate flavors of the same form factor: Steam Machine for the lower priced, casual plug-n-play gaming use case, and Framework Desktop for the higher priced, professional use case.

Seeing as the Steam Machine feels like a way to get traction for SteamOS just as much as it is a venture for selling hardware, a partnership between them selling Framework laptops/desktops verified for SteamOS seems like exactly the type of thing Valve would want.

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