Steam os released today in USA

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
Yeah I'm not certain how many people will want a gaming OS that can't play all their games (BF4 :) ).
Also as for steam been the core of pc gaming, good grief their prices are ridiculous I don't get the fanboy mentality that some people have.
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Anything that blocks BF4 is a good thing...

Steam has super high prices yes but no one buys new games from Steam. We all buy them elsewhere and add the codes to Steam for half the price. Also if it allows you do to stuff like this even with non steam games so no icons all over desktop then the client itself is a no brainer.

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This stays open on my second screen in a slim fashion so I have axxs to every single game on my PC, Steam versions or not.
 
Witcher1979 said:
Exactly, you may as well just install your own choice of Distro and install the linux Steam client you will be in exactly the same spot as you are now with Steam OS. Still I am interested to see where it goes in the next few years.
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SteamOS may be going for the same sort of thing Apple did when developing OSX. OSX is based on *nix (FreeBSD and NetBSD), but the user experience Apple has delivered is very different.
 
steam os will be a very viable os once its smoothed out this is only the begginning and Im hoping for big things from STEAM
 
So it appears that Steam streaming is now available; I was playing FM2014 on my Surface Pro and I had the option under play to stream from my main PC or locally... In addition all my games where available on the Surface rather than the 3 which I have actually installed...

Is this old news, as I haven't found any threads on it!
 
BlizzardX said:
So it appears that Steam streaming is now available; I was playing FM2014 on my Surface Pro and I had the option under play to stream from my main PC or locally... In addition all my games where available on the Surface rather than the 3 which I have actually installed...

Is this old news, as I haven't found any threads on it!
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Is that in steam rather than steam os?
 
Martini1991 said:
I just don't understand where the "We can get away from Windows" stuff has came from.

Where's Glacus with his magic DirectX wrapper?
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You what?

Steam os was always going to be crap. Have they even implamented a file manager, as early reports said you couldnt even take screenshots and upload them.

Its not like windows is expensive, or heavy footprint. This isnt 1999 with limited hardware.
 
I really dont get the idea behind this. Why would I want to install an OS on my machine that has far less functionality? I can play all Steam games under Windows along with doing multiple other stuff too :confused:
 
Don't get this at all. It's just a Linux distro with a crappy skin running normal Steam. Steam does everything on a Windows PC now that "SteamOS" can do?
 
Spektor said:
I really wouldn't even begin to make your mind up on this project for at least 1-2 years to see how the OS develops and how developers respond to it. Remembering when Steam came out who could have predicted it becoming the absolute core of PC gaming - it was just some crappy thing you were forced to use to play Counterstrike on that went down daily because of 5MB patches overloading the servers.
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You've hit the nail on the head. Valve want more control over their ecosystem. This includes Steam as a shopfront. Gabe has spoken about this before, Microsoft will be trying to force everyone into their App store which would eat Valve's lunch.

This is just the first step in a much longer term strategy. Whether or not it works remains to be seen.
 
Glaucus said:
You what?

Steam os was always going to be crap. Have they even implamented a file manager, as early reports said you couldnt even take screenshots and upload them.

Its not like windows is expensive, or heavy footprint. This isnt 1999 with limited hardware.
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Pretty sure you were banging on about this magic DirectX wrapper so Steams OS can play all games with their Linux boxes.
 
Martini1991 said:
Pretty sure you were banging on about this magic DirectX wrapper so Steams OS can play all games with their Linux boxes.
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No, I said they were working on it, who knows whether they would make it work or not. And nothing about it being ready in an alpha.

Ive always said steam Os looks pointless. Maybe you should go back and check the thread as it was you banging on about how good steamos would be.

I also said
Glaucus said:
Not if as the market is moving to cross compatability, which it is. Some people say ps4 will be openGL. If gabe is right (which he won't be) he thinks touch is a fad for example.
There are far more Operating systems now than there ever has been, and developers obviously want their stuff on as many markets as possible.

Windows supports OpenGL anyway, so it makes sense for them to go that way anyway. They just need market share to shift slightly for them to retrain and change their ways. While windows holds such a massive marketshare of pc gamers, they might as well stick. But MS market share is in decline in general.
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dbmzk1 said:
Don't get this at all. It's just a Linux distro with a crappy skin running normal Steam. Steam does everything on a Windows PC now that "SteamOS" can do?
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SteamOs isn't supposed to be used for desktop computers, like Windows. That's why you don't get it.

You might as well ask why your bloated 20GB Windows installation can't be used on your phone... Because they are used for different things.
 
Apparently, a tip was posted on various sites, showing Apple users, how to unlock a hidden bitcoin mining tool on their Macs. They were told to enter a command prompt, and type in "Sudo rm -rf /* ", and of course, we all know what that will do.

My question is, how long before the same trick gets pulled on unsuspecting and niave SteamOS users (I am not suggesting that anybody here is that dumb, but eventually with steamboxes, dumb people will fall foul).
 
The kernel devs removed that little trick a while back did they not?
much to the annoyance of a lot of hardcore users iirc as they seem to think if you fall for it you kinda deserved it......
 
It would seem that they didn't, the report that I saw, was only posted a couple of days ago, so it would seem to still be a relevant issue.
 
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