520, 1 year ago

It’s built on Linux.

So what? Orbis (the PlayStation OS) is built on FreeBSD, but there's still anti piracy on the PS5.

So no, there’s nothing they could have done to lock it down to prevent piracy.

They could have:

• locked the machine to SteamOS only
• allowed only the Steam UI
• encrypted the SSD using a TPM chip to prevent messing with the OS.
• disallow applications that expose the underlying UI
• have an Apple esque signing policy when it comes to system binaries
• not allow custom shortcuts.
• much more

Believe me, if they wanted to try, they could have.