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SBFord
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The first in a trio of announcement set to hit the internet this week, Steam has revealed the "SteamOS" based on Linux technology. The supposition is that this will lead to the second announcement of the 'Steambox' console system and...?
Steam is coming to a new operating system
As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.
Check out the SteamOS page for more information.
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I would love for this to be a real thing, that actually takes off. Imagine an operating system that's built for gaming, not for businesses, average users and everything else that gets thrown into the mix.
Though, that might be a double edged sword too. An awesome OS for gaming that borks my English papers written using Google Drive might not be so cool. :-)
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Love it
Microsoft has been dropping the ball big time over the last couple year's and needs a good slap from consumer's.
Competition is always a good thing. Looking forward to some real money being invested into things like Open-GL.
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I don't know if this a good idea or not... A Steam flavored Linux..
1. The amount of bugs And incompatibility among steam users hardware is going to be huge.
2. There aint that many linux games, And the decent games a built for windows.. Better have a HUGE support center if you try and emulate windows games on your OS..
edit: If they are only going to stream the games from another computer what is the point? Run a cable to your TV!
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Do what? So they could vastly improve the Steam client expanding it with new features and incorporating old features into it. An Example of old features would be the need to use a separate browser to access the legacy forums instead of being able to access all of it inside the Steam client. They now want me to think that they can compete with Microsoft for performance and ease of access in the OS market? I don't dislike Steam (I use it) but there is so much that could be improved and expanded upon in the Steam client that I have a really hard time believing that they could build a better OS than what we've already got or that is on the way.
This almost sounds like they might be trying to get in on the console market, just the first step in that process. If so seems they seem a little behind on the curve and will Steam be willing to spend as much money as SOE or Microsoft in order to catch up and compete with that market. Call me skeptical after Gabe's crazy rants about Microsoft awhile back.
Why i would need this? What this will give me that i don't have already ?
A toy for wana-feel like pro gamers.
It's not streaming games. It's using Linux as a Gaming OS instead of Windows.
Though, with streaming becoming a thing now, I would think streaming some games in some manner would become an option.
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If this actually took off, you could do this. I'm going it now with my Ubuntu laptop and Steam. It sucks, because my laptop sucks, but it works pretty much the way it works on my Windows box. Pick a game, download the files, run the game.
The living room angle is because Valve, like Microsoft, thinks gaming is going to move into a more mainstream position in households. They want to build a console that works like the PS4 or XB1 and let people buy games like they do with Steam now, but play them in their living room, skipping the step of buying CDs or DVDs.
Basically the PC market and the console market for Valve would be the same market.
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I think it's brilliant.
Nintendo, Sony (and Sega before then went under) and Microsoft have all been competing against each other. Sod that. Get SteamBox in there and allow all devs to publich to one f* console. I don't play consoles as PC and handheld are enough, but for the market and customer it sounds great. Also a bit of competition never hurt either. Then what is Apple doing? I wonder why they have not come up with their TV/Console angle yet??
Overall however, if the SteamBox is a trojan horse to get more players paying valve which then means SteamOS gains more punch then it's probably end-game a good result to have competition with Microsoft for games, also.
"Let the mayhem begin!" lol.
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I Dont know . Having a OS that runs the games instead of bloat ware in the OS.
Saves on resources and all. Meaning in theory it would run the games better with faster FPS.
Streaming games from one computer to other might be for games that you bought from the store/some other online gaming and not from Steam.
I will try it and see how it goes.
Still have doubts about linux and gaming in general.
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That was my thoughts after I initially posted and before I saw what you wrote. "Wait a minute. Steam wants in on the console market! They've talked about it for awhile now." Looking at what we got coming out for consoles and how similar this all seems. It looks like this is just their first step into that market. I just find it hard to believe that they'll actually compete on that market. If they try and force a switch on it's current users at any point that has the potential to get really nasty. Why don't they just expand the Steam client and make it more of an all-in-one instead of this. Eliminate the need for a gamer to use anything outside the Steam client. I guess this goes better with Gabe's anti-Microsoft views or something? I don't know, just seems odd.
It's an interesting angle they're trying here, but I'm dubious about the results...
Unless Steam have made it REALLY easy for developers to port their Windows-based titles to Linux, this whole thing is going to struggle. As always, the success is purely dependant on how many titles they can offer, and whether they will have all the new games available on day 1.
Everything else is irrelevant.
Oh my god, that means the Console Wars and PC vs Apple vs MS vs Linux are back from the 90s for another tour.
Not again, please god no not again.
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Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
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I have not tried Linux yet but I do plan to do it one day. My question is if I install Linux OS can it run and do everything Windows can?
You can do everything with the only difference that you will be able to run far less games.
you can not run the same programs - you can run their linux versions or alternatives.
As the tablet market grows the PC and console markets are shrinking. So of course.... there are more competitors in the console space than ever before. Day late and a dollar short.
Not to mention there is already that little start up that is doing the streaming box for gaming anyway.
I've never even understood the hype of steam to be honest. They are just another e-store of which there are plenty. I typically just buy games through the game developer if I can and then through amazon as a second option. I do have a steam account, but I hardly use it these days. The main reason I had it back in the day was for Valve games, but they stopped producing quality games years ago.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
So Portal 2 is not "quality" lol.In any case the biggest obstacle to steam OS is a total lack of DirectX, meaning 90% of games won't run natively on the OS & have to be streamed which has far from desirable performance at this point.