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Posted by Astryl on Sept. 23, 2013, 12:50 p.m.

So, Valve dropped this today:

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

I'm actually intrigued by the idea; if games are able to run as close to the metal as possible, with specifically designed drivers and interfaces, it could be interesting in terms of performance.

Also, of course, I'm going to see how to go about developing for this when it comes out; good excuse to replace my Ubuntu partition, since my new graphics card screwed it up.

Anyway, there's two more announcements coming up. I guess "Steam Box" and "Steam Pad".

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JuurianChi 11 years, 2 months ago

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I feel that instead, Steam should have had a reboot. Started from scratch.

It's a distribution platform.

What needs to be rebooted or changed?

What are they gonna do, jettison their entire game library and tell everyone the first 100 new publishers get free game submissions for life?

If you're tired of Steam as it is.

You're probably using it too much.

death 11 years, 2 months ago

The only true criticism i have for Steambox and OS is that… well it's kind of pointless. Steam is a software we can install on any current OS. Like Juurian said, it's just a distribution platform, turning that into a console seems kind of odd to me.

For all of us with a gaming PC and Steam already installed, this Steam OS and Box pretty much mean nothing to the existing Steam user base. This is mainly them targeting the console gamers, so there's not much reason for us to be excited about this box or Linux-turned-steam OS.

LAR Games 11 years, 2 months ago

Whoa there. I certainly didn't mean that.

I just meant the program itself. The client.

I guess I should have been more specific.

Josea 11 years, 2 months ago

As much as I hate Steam, this actually looks kinda good. The PC streaming looks interesting, I wonder how much bandwidth/latency you would need to game smoothly on it.

KaBob799 11 years, 2 months ago

It feels like I'm the only person on the internet who doesn't care about SteamOS =/

Astryl 11 years, 2 months ago

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@Mega: I would hold back on using it as a main distro - I don't think this is built for everyday use, I think it is specifically for turning a box into a console-like experience.

I hardly use my main Linux distro at the moment, since it's suffering from severe lack of a launcher (Screwed my drivers up). If SteamOS comes out soon enough, I'd probably install it just to see what it's like, whether you can get normal Linux software to work on it, and probably replace it with Fedora or Slackware later.

F1ak3r 11 years, 2 months ago

I'm excited for what SteamOS could mean for games on Linux – i.e. it will lead to more of them existing, and then I'm one step closer to removing my Windows partition.

Juju 11 years, 2 months ago

I, for one, welcome our new video gaming overlords.

JuurianChi 11 years, 1 month ago

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iirc you can already do that with big picture - browse custom executable files, that is.

You can potentially just add a steam game entry and point it to whatever emulator you want to run it 'via steam'

That wouldn't be a feature in SteamOS.

Goombert 11 years, 1 month ago

I am excited for this, though again I still hate DRM.