Steam os released today in USA

delpy8 · 13 Dec 2013 at 18:21

God knows it was supposed to be released today???

Martini1991 · 13 Dec 2013 at 18:25

SteamOS is a hoax

tom113 · 13 Dec 2013 at 18:28

Its only 10.30am where valve are could be a while yet

Martini1991 · 13 Dec 2013 at 18:31

But everything is always 6pm.
Like always.

tom113 · 13 Dec 2013 at 18:39

Valve time is valve time

Antar Bolaeisk · 13 Dec 2013 at 21:06

Martini1991 said:
The only reason I can see them launching it now is mantle, which ironically debuts with BF4, so there's this "Come look at this AAA title on our OS"

Does Origin run under Linux?

Taziir · 13 Dec 2013 at 22:06

Martini1991 said:
SteamOS is a hoax

The boot screen had better be a cake logo or I'm going home

Antony101 · 14 Dec 2013 at 00:47

Tis oot.

Nevakonaza · 14 Dec 2013 at 02:05

bledd. said:
Really looking forward to testing this out

Same here,Only reason im using windows is for games..so if steam OS lets us play all our steam games and eventually non steam games (which i doubt

) then we might be able to get away from windows altogether.

tonyt3rry · 14 Dec 2013 at 02:12

I only want it for the house streaming I have a dual core laptop that I'd love to use since it has onboard graphics

Hyburnate · 14 Dec 2013 at 02:17

From the screenshot I saw (not sure if it's legit) it looks ugly. My hopes are it forces developers to program for Linux.

delpy8 · 14 Dec 2013 at 08:56

DOWNLOAD available at 960mb

http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/13/valve-steamos-beta/

Martini1991 · 14 Dec 2013 at 09:00

So is anyone running this yet

?

delpy8 · 14 Dec 2013 at 09:03

STEAM FAQS

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814395741989999/

randal · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:20

Martini1991 said:
So is anyone running this yet ?

Downloading it now.

I have a stinking cold today, and the Mrs is bored of the sound of my sneezing so I think I'm being left to my own devices today. Quite literally.

Martini1991 · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:22

I'm just going in a hard drive and install it now.

I've done something to my Laptop, it sees my SSD it just won't boot from it >.<

EDIT : Yay, installing SteamOS to my SSD on my Laptop now.

wnb · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:49

Can someone post their experiences with installing steam os would be helpful if you described if you could duel boot from the same partition.

randal · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:49

Very interested to see how this handles SLI setups. Will post back once I've installed.

randal · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:53

wnb said:
Can someone post their experiences with installing steam os would be helpful if you described if you could duel boot from the same partition.

Taken from the readme on the installer disk:

Because Debian is a complete Operating System, the installation
procedure may seem a bit unusual. You can install Debian GNU/Linux
either alongside your current OS, or as the only OS on your computer.

edit - then again, ArsTechnica found this:

One very important caveat: Both of the official install methods will erase your hard drive. At least for now, there is no way to dual-boot SteamOS or install it on a second hard drive. The installer is a Debian custom unattended install, which includes automatic partitioning of the computer's primary disk and then an automated OS install onto the new partitions. The larger image-based method partitions the disk and then installs pre-created disk images onto those partitions. At least for now, the only way to get SteamOS onto a computer is to sacrifice that computer to Valve.

Witcher1979 · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:57

Nemeses said:
Being saying this for years always laugh when I see people whine about Microsoft, without them we would not be having as much fun.

What a stupid thing to say, the Amiga OS was doing just fine and if they were not so stupid about upgrading hardware in the computers we would be in a very different market today. People who whine about M$ are the ones old enough to know how things worked before.