There were more examples than that. Unfortunately, in all, while the unterlying economic model was centralized in a manner like communism, human nature still prevailed to install an authoritarian government on the political side.
Damn, I still use my old steam machine (the zotac nen one). It's been superseded by the deck for gaming, but now runs all my self-hosted stuff. The new controller looks quite nice too
There were more examples than that. Unfortunately, in all, while the unterlying economic model was centralized in a manner like communism, human nature still prevailed to install an authoritarian government on the political side.