If Valve made an Operating System for gaming would you switch from Windows?

Dual boot of SteamOS for gaming and W7 for work stuff is the way forward. Personally can't wait to test this out, hopefully get a nice lil boost of performance, and the satisfaction that it is a 'free' operating system. I bet benching on the SteamOS would be better as well..

Microsoft have been unchallenged for to long, and let's be honest although W8 is good, it's def not got the desktop PC gamer in mind. This is where SteamOS will shine, a OS made by gamers for gamers.
 
KIA said:
This could be an awesome HTPC OS. I'm pumped.
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Support for Blu Ray and video streaming services like Netflix is extermely limited on linux, unless Valve have sorted this out it's not going to be great for a HTPC in my opinion.

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Not able to view any of the sites detailing the OS at work. If they are doing this it's extremely good news.
 
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Finners said:
As above, A nice low powered HTPC is always made expensive by a copy of windows. This loaded on there makes it much more attractive.
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In the past Windows 7 has been £30-40 depending on when you ordered it and which version. It's not exactly a massive cost.

HTPCs still have hard-drives (probably an SSD to get a fast boot). Still have a CPU still have to by a case and PSU. So for a half decent one, before you add in the 3TB storage at the backend, you're looking at around £300 to £400 quid. A tenth of that on a OS which runs it all and actually does a hell of a lot more than just running XBMC, is, in my opinion, a bargain.



M.
 
Looks like it relies on streaming a game from a Windows PC on your network to play any game that doesn't support Linux.
 
m4cc45 said:
In the past Windows 7 has been £30-40 depending on when you ordered it and which version. It's not exactly a massive cost.

HTPCs still have hard-drives (probably an SSD to get a fast boot). Still have a CPU still have to by a case and PSU. So for a half decent one, before you add in the 3TB storage at the backend, you're looking at around £300 to £400 quid. A tenth of that on a OS which runs it all and actually does a hell of a lot more than just running XBMC, is, in my opinion, a bargain.



M.
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And by the time you're up to that price why not just buy a Xbox 360 or PS3 for £100?
 
Because then you'd be a gen behind. Brand new console is going to cost you £400-500 and then the games on top are damn expensive and you are also then locked into it doing only a couple of things (i.e. limited Media Center or Play Games awkward web browser unless you get a keyboard for it which is more cash) at least with a PC its a production machine so you can write an essay you can make a game yourself or simply play a multitude of free games or even cheaper AAA games than you can get on the consoles.

A decent PC will cost you about the same as the new gen console but then you have no problems with backward compatibility (even back to DOS with DOSBox) and you can do your homework or work on it as well.



M.
 
m4cc45 said:
Because then you'd be a gen behind. Brand new console is going to cost you £400-500 and then the games on top are damn expensive and you are also then locked into it doing only a couple of things (i.e. limited Media Center or Play Games awkward web browser unless you get a keyboard for it which is more cash) at least with a PC its a production machine so you can write an essay you can make a game yourself or simply play a multitude of free games or even cheaper AAA games than you can get on the consoles.

A decent PC will cost you about the same as the new gen console but then you have no problems with backward compatibility (even back to DOS with DOSBox) and you can do your homework or work on it as well.



M.
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But then be locked into Steam for games which y ou can't even sell second hand...? Might as well have Windows 7 on it for £50 more and have all the Steam stuff plus more flexibility.
 
I think you've mis-read my posts. I advocate going for Windows 7 over this and consoles- I can't see the point in a device where you can only play natively the Linux games and then have to have a Windows PC to stream (adding latency)



M.

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I'll stick to my windows pc for desktop gaming and a next gen console (pre-ordered ps4) for couch gaming thank you very much
 
In-home Streaming

You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!
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Ahh they listened!

Wonder how that will work, I know you can use remote login but its usually way too laggy for gaming.
 
I love paying MS for OS upgrades and new Windows releases. I like their staff to be well paid and get bonuses every year, even if they don't work very hard. :)
 
Hades said:
I am very comfortable with Linux and prefer it to Windows for some things. So if there were enough good titles released on it then yes I would. So it really depends on how many good titles they have.
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+1

i'd love a Linux OS that could run all my games. Wishful thinking though. With the EA games not budging from windows, dont think i'll ever be able to move full time. Will be great to see what the OS is like though.
 
m4cc45 said:
I think you've mis-read my posts. I advocate going for Windows 7 over this and consoles- I can't see the point in a device where you can only play natively the Linux games and then have to have a Windows PC to stream (adding latency)



M.

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Ah, with ya :)
 
Steam site said:
Thousands of games, millions of users. Everything you love about Steam.
Available soon as a free operating system designed for the TV and the living room.
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Gabe... Why you want to make a closed system console and no love teh PC gamers any more? :(
 
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