‘Lies about driver support’: Valve now lets you install Windows 11 on a Steam Machine, but many people don’t want to be fooled twice
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Valve opening up official Windows 11 drivers while users complain about past support gaps underlines a broader point—enthusiast hardware lives or dies on long-term software maintenance. If you ship devices, your update and driver roadmap is now a core part of product-market fit, not an afterthought.
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