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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jolt" data-source="post: 9799622" data-attributes="member: 18142">I once provided desktop support to a law firm.  One lawyer angrily asked why Outlook looked and interfaced so different on his phone than it did on his laptop.  I then had to come up with a polite way to explain to a non-tech person, "Because it's your phone and not your laptop".The Steambox is, essentially, a very focused PC - the Steamdeck is vastly more limited.  Like any networked device, there are going to be inherent vulnerabilities.  I do not trust Valve (on any level) to provide quality security support.  I don't trust Microsoft either, but I trust Valve even less.  Also, Windows is easy to modify if it starts doing things I don't like (such as removing things nobody asked to be removed).How much control am I really going to have over my Steambox?  I admit that I don't know.  Nothing that Valve has done over the years makes me feel very confident however.  My confidence in MS hovers around zero.  My confidence in Valve is in the negatives.</blockquote>