it’s just a PC

Yeah, that’s kinda my point.

Who cares if they aren’t gamers. Valve also sells digital creative software on Steam.

If we are talking about businesses, chances are they will simply install windows on it and use licences of applications they already own… Again, “it’s just a pc”. The vast majority of businesses don’t buy licenses on steam, so why would they change that?

Couldn’t a problem be that If they set the price too low, companies buy them in bulk and using them as cheap, performant and sexy looking pcs? Consoles are very restricted in terms of os and other software, forcing people to use them in a way that almost guarantees you earning back your loss in the long term.

Steam machines are the opposite, you can install virtually anything on it and use them for whatever.

The headset itself is running linux and it is meant to be used with the steam machine, which also runs on linux.