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SteamOS machines and Linux desktops are sliding into irrelevance.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3040719/linux/linux-usage-on-steam-continues-to-fall.html
Steam machines haven’t stopped the slide
The evidence comes from Valve’s Steam Hardware Survey. It reveals that machines running Linux—including SteamOS—were at 0.91 percent in February 2016, a drop of 0.04 percent from January.
This is actually part of a long, slow downward slide. Linux has been hovering around 1 percent for a while, and it’s dropping further.
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As for reposting it, same reason some post about VR and don't think it's going to be very relevant either. It's fun to see where the market is going or isn't going.
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Second problem is not enough software and games.
Third problem is lack of driver support. People want their hardware to work flawlessly. That means video cards, gaming mice, smartphones, cameras, etc.
In fact, OS that aren't Linux, like ReactOS are becoming more popular than Linux. Linux is sliding into 4th place instead of 3rd in my opinion.
options? get used to it. No longer are the days of the consumer where you had no options. Options are what people want. The whole 'too many options' also comes off as PR speak from those who dont offer options.
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IMO they would have to sale at a big price cut before it became really mainstream for home pc use. People who just need a pc for email and web browsing wouldn't use it because they can do that on tablets and cellphones now which have an advantage of being portable.
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I grew tired of constant tweaking and graphical glitches/crashes plus content I couldnt use in some games when I was using Wine and Playonlinux etc.
Especially in MMO's every patch ~even the <100kb size patches~ I had to tweak Wine again for ages to make the game playable. 1-2d later: new patch...same old thing.
Also my video editing and CAD software had huge problems running stable in Mint/Ubuntu.
But if you are just using social media/email/office software, there's no better OS.
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And if the userbase isn't big enough, those platforms probably wont get much more support so ehm.. well.. not sure how thats going to work out.
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PC gamers really have little use for it.
There is a reason Valve distanced themselves from making the systems like they had planned and just licensed out the OS instead. That way they wont be on the sinking ship but on the life boat collecting licensing fees. I feel sorry for those companies that jumped on the bandwagon to make these machines.
Only part if mircosoft better not keep messing up what there doing with windows 10, that mass of market share on the windows 7 user may see linux OS a option if newer games keep coming to it.
Time will tell no one knows how this will turn out.
So the question becomes...........Why SteamOS?
SteamOS was not a replacement over windows but the big plan was to get more games made over to linux so windows don't have a big market hold on gaming. They are a few games that are emulation shell but they don't run 100% well over then games that fully ported well over to linux.
ATM Nvidia haves been putting more work on drivers then AMD on linux.
Probably more than 0.04%