Will Steam OS ever make Windows obsolete for gaming?

[Citizen Cook]

I have a Steam Deck on preorder. Tons of games in my library are not supported but I desperately want to say goodbye to Windows once and for all. Do you think the day will ever comes when every game on Steams runs flawlessly on Steam OS?

[Taebrythn]

I will probably get a Steam deck at one point or another. if it's well supported still sure why not. it's better then what they attempted for a game system. i bet if they would put more into it to actually compete with Playstation, wii, and Xbox they would do better. just my thought.

i was one of those that did buy the system. i also knew there used to be Steam computers but i guess that never took off.

[Arkham99]

remember... the Steam OS was revealed at the same time both the Steam Controller & SteamBox were... the OS outlasted the other two and is still going... a Victory in itself...:-)

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

引用自 Citizen Cook：

Will Steam OS ever make Windows obsolete for gaming?

Hmmmmmm....
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+obsolete
"1. no longer produced or used; out of date." (for gaming, in this case)


No.


Slightly less terse answer : No more than X-box or PC-gaming made Nintendo "obsolete".

[Citizen Cook]

What about the possibility of a two-tier system where businesses continue to use Windows but gamers use Steam OS? Imagine building your next gaming PC but never installing Windows on it. Instead you install Steam OS and play all your windows-made games through Valve’s OS.

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

引用自 Citizen Cook：

What about the possibility of a two-tier system where businesses continue to use Windows but gamers use Steam OS? Imagine building your next gaming PC but never installing Windows on it. Instead you install Steam OS and play all your windows-made games through Valve’s OS.

How about the possibility of a 9-tier system where businesses continue to use Windows, while gamers use Steam OS, but businesses also use Steam OS, & gamers also use Windows?
Or people just use whatever they want, whether it be Windows, Steam OS, Mac, some Linux distro, Android, Chromebook, Symbian OS, Temple OS, or some other OS.

Imagine building your next gaming PC out of bread-boards but never installing ANY OS on it.
Instead, you assemble your "world's worst video card" out of a bread-board kit and program Box Boy Calculator into it on EEPROM chips yourself ...if that's what you so choose to do.

[Tates Masterace]

Yes , if you want to play on windows
You most create another partition just for windows
Or wiped out the steam os and put just windows

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 Randver：

引用自 crunchyfrog：

Wrong.

Foir a start the situation was different. It was still rather niche to own a PC. But you are STILL not inlcuding the people who caused Windows to take off - all the businesses. That's the whole point here as I said right from the beginning.

It wasn't just few people doing accounts or anything. That';s simply not even remotely true.

Businesses didn't have much of a choice after the IBM deal so everyone using a desktop had Windows on it.

Now the question is were they using it. MS DOS was the OS up until Windows 2000 (at least I think that was the first one without DOS). Most businesses were still using Lotus 1 2 3 and WordPerfect into the 90's (using DOS).

So I'd be willing to bet that most of the people using the Windows UI were home users and not businesses. You're not distinguishing between who was buying computers with WIndows installed and who was actually using Windows.

I think Windows 3.1 was the first version you actually had the option to boot into Windows at start-up without typing "win" at the DOS prompt.

So businesses made MS lots of money but home users made the OS popular because of it's ease of use.

Again, not true.

The IBM "deal" or copyright case over the PC didn't last long and it was LONG before Windows existed. It was CPM and MS-DOS.

So no, again not true.

The reality is that when Windows came about, version 1 wasn't as widepsread. but by the time 3 came around, it was implemented into business VERY quickly because many of those utiltites like Lotus 123, wordperfect et al worked so well within them and were built upon them.

So ideal for business adoption.

And again, I'm not talking small business here but large industry - banks, hospitals, defence contractors, NASA and so on.

You can't fight that sort of coverage- that's the point.

[The Angry Geezer]

引用自 crunchyfrog：

Extremely doubtful because gaming isn't the only metric for a start.

The business sector uses Windows and that is FAR FAR bigger than gaming.

It's rather like why CDs took off. Back in the very early 1980s they were created and they were slow moving for music. Classical for the richer people did sell, but it was very niche. Guess what kicked it up a notch? When they realised the benefit of data density on it for storage.

That meant they could invest more heavily into it and all but guaranteed it's success and that's partly why it took a massive step up in the mid 1980s and took off.

So in the case of SteamOS, at best all it could is create effectively their own little universe. But even that's not going to happen. Because quite simply, as long as you have Windows naturally installed with PCs and that ease it's simply going to continue.

why does business have to be a determining factor when we buy a phone we buy the one that suits our needs . This is no different when it comes to choosing a operating system for a gaming computer. the average gamer doesn't need the filler that business consumers need. Me as a gamer first i prefer a os that caters to my needs , Steam OS is that Need i can still access many desktop applications that i would use out side of gaming video editing graphics picture etc. but when its time to game it becomes a full console in the form of a pc with added benifits such as controller support thru the steam client plus games run better on steam os then windows so its not a question of if its a question of when ppl realize windows is not for gaming and so why would you pick a operating system that is not made for your specific wants doesn't make good sense

[Tsubame ⭐]

引用自 Citizen Cook：

I have a Steam Deck on preorder. Tons of games in my library are not supported but I desperately want to say goodbye to Windows once and for all. Do you think the day will ever comes when every game on Steams runs flawlessly on Steam OS?

Not happening.

Computers go far beyond gaming, and Steam is not the only marketplace that sells games for PC.

More plausible and realistic would be SteamOS - or more likely Apple - replacing Windows as the largest PC OS system, though chances are still zero for both, in the near future.

[Kargor]

It's not actually SteamOS that matters, it's Proton (the Windows Emulator, a spinoff from Wine).

Over time, that emulation has improved, and you can expect it to improve even more. However, it's a huge workload, and a moving target.