NATURE 2013 年 9 月 23 日 上午 10:07
SteamOS what do you think about it ?
最后由 NATURE 编辑于; 2014 年 3 月 21 日 上午 11:38
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Bakteria 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 6:25 
Love the idea of SteamOS and have been waiting forever for this to come out. I am confident that this will play a major roll on making consoles obsolete.
There's just one thing I've been thinking about.
I have one account with all my games. I have one PC and one HTPC. As of now I can only be logged in to one account at a time.
Will I have to have 2 accounts if the misses wants to have a go at FEZ while I'm playing Dota?
Is this something that will be addressed?
logun24x7 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 6:42 
引用自 Jimaral
引用自 GothicHM
For those of us that have been gaming and developing games for decades this is the biggest, and most exciting thing since the development of the keyboard and mouse! A company willing to spend time and money making quality gaming experience available to all.

Which company? Sony or Microsoft? Because those are the ones wasting millions in each console generation.

And because it´s not the case of Valve. They are just launching a new distro of linux and let other hardware companies to take the risks.

Personally I don´t see the point of Steam OS. It does not offers anything new to the player. The only benefits are for Valve, to build their own "walled garden"


Sony and Microsoft invest money in their console platforms so they can lock in their market share and charge 3rd party developers for the privilege of programing for their systems, they’re not in the game to lose money. They may take a loss on the hardware but they make that up over the life cycle of the system.

A Walled Garden system is where one company controls the hardware and software that runs on said system. Apple, Sony’s PS4, the Xbox and Microsoft’s Windows 8 RT platforms are Walled Gardens.

SteamOS and the Steam Machines are the polar opposite of a walled garden. Valve is basically investing in Linux gaming and inviting the community of both hardware developers and game developers to come along for the ride. That’s an open community approach.

SteamOS games are just Linux games and you don’t need SteamOS to play them you can use any free Linux distro you like to play Linux based games. Valve doesn’t have exclusive distribution rights for Linux titles either. They are banking that if they build up the Linux platform and they continue to provide great value and service you’ll get your Linux games from them.

Microsoft has just announced that “Project Spark” is only available for 8.1 Windows users. I’ll take that as a hint that the Walled Garden has begun now on the x86 Windows Desktop, or they’re just pathetically desperate to try and get people off of Windows 7.

So the way I see it Microsoft is trying to make even the Windows platform a Walled Garden itself, and that future seems rather dark for PC gaming in MHO. That would leave us with one or two companies controlling computer gaming charging 3rd party developer’s outrageous fees for the privilege to release titles on their systems and controlling content with their certification process. In that world Steam doesn’t exist, and without steam support many of the independent developers wink-out as well.

As Gabe has said “For PC gaming Linux is our get out of jail free card” and I agree with him.

Trinity15th 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 7:19 
引用自 logun24x7



As Gabe has said “For PC gaming Linux is our get out of jail free card” and I agree with him.

This is a very important Quote. I bet we all thought Steam OS gets shipped with a ubuntu-LTS-core. I m quite suprised Gabe is kicking Mark into the guts.
最后由 Trinity15th 编辑于; 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 7:35
Siffi1112 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 8:07 
引用自 logun24x7
We already have a Steam Machine confirmed at the same cost of this generation of consoles, and when you buy a new console how many games does it support 6 to 8 titles maybe
So steambox is just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ pc?
logun24x7 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 8:34 
引用自 Siffi
引用自 logun24x7
We already have a Steam Machine confirmed at the same cost of this generation of consoles, and when you buy a new console how many games does it support 6 to 8 titles maybe
So steambox is just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ pc?

Depends on your definition of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ computer, and it can be anything you want it to be.
You’ll have a $499.00 version you can upgrade later as you need to, or if you need to have something that peels the paint of the walls you can get a $1500.00 version. The choice is yours

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-11-27-ibuypowers-steam-machine-priced-at-USD499

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/1-469-steam-machine-from-digital-storm-vows-to-defy-the-cookie-cutter-mold/1100-6416676/
最后由 logun24x7 编辑于; 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 8:38
Siffi1112 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 9:06 
So the 500 bucks version is crap the 1500 bucks version will probably be crap too.And the steamOs doesnt have any good reason why i should my fine running system.So what a waste of money which would have been better invested in making some good games.
logun24x7 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 9:16 
引用自 Heikki
Love the idea of SteamOS and have been waiting forever for this to come out. I am confident that this will play a major roll on making consoles obsolete.
There's just one thing I've been thinking about.
I have one account with all my games. I have one PC and one HTPC. As of now I can only be logged in to one account at a time.
Will I have to have 2 accounts if the misses wants to have a go at FEZ while I'm playing Dota?
Is this something that will be addressed?

I don’t want to see the console guys become obsolete, but I do hope that by adopting a free open source OS like Linux into the gaming fold it becomes the Android OS of gaming, where anyone can build a console gaming hardware device, run their own version of Linux and developers can have one software release and cover 80% of the market.

I hate this business model of hooking people into multiple sets of hardware using software/games as the bait. The console wars and their exclusive title BS just means fewer games for everyone unless you fork out the cash to own every system.
In short Games need a universal format, Linux could be that format.

JCX 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 9:35 
引用自 Siffi
So the 500 bucks version is crap the 1500 bucks version will probably be crap too.And the steamOs doesnt have any good reason why i should my fine running system.So what a waste of money which would have been better invested in making some good games.

Might be a waste of money, might pay off. That's how businesses become successful. Take a risky opportunity and hope for the best. Making games will make them money put if this is successful then they can make a lot more money. It will also increase the amount of games which work on Linux.
Chas. 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 9:44 
With UEFI a requirement, it seems Windows would be the best platform to resurrect a circa 2008 laptop as a Steam Streaming machine. It's a pity, that.

Now that the Steam client is gaining LAN streaming functionality, I see little reason to check out SteamOS.

For now it appears that Steam under Windows would be the first choice for those of us interested in streaming new life to their old hardware.
Hawkins 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 11:01 
Just wasted the best part of a day working out how to revert my pc back to a standard bios after updating it to an efi beta caused major boot issues. With luck future beta steam os wont require efi. My current mainboard was released just before efi became common place and at the moment there is no reason I would want to replace it.

At the moment what does steam os offer over other popular linux distributions like Ubuntu or Mint? I have tried both recently and the performance of non Linux games via wine wasn’t impressive compared to windows.
最后由 Hawkins 编辑于; 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 11:02
PegasusJF 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 11:19 
A Debian based distro that has navtive support for NVIDIA? Wow. If it has good reposititories I think I just found my new favorite linux distro. Personally I think this is an excellent move, since Linux is a wonderful OS (it's given ancient laptops of mine a new lease in life), hopefully it will inspire more game development in that platform.
logun24x7 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 11:47 
引用自 PegasusJF
A Debian based distro that has navtive support for NVIDIA? Wow. If it has good reposititories I think I just found my new favorite linux distro. Personally I think this is an excellent move, since Linux is a wonderful OS (it's given ancient laptops of mine a new lease in life), hopefully it will inspire more game development in that platform.

Yap, I was shocked to see that SteamOS lets you swap into a full Linux Debain desktop environment I thought for sure you would be stuck with just the Big Picture Steam interface.
Looks like it has full access to all the Debain repositories too.

`Scarlxrd74` 2013 年 12 月 14 日 上午 11:56 
It has possibilities, if you have a good graphics card...
SwollenGoat 2013 年 12 月 14 日 下午 12:00 
Can someone answer a question that I have not been able to find a straight answer on? Does SteamOS, as it is available now, provide Netflix streaming capabilities? Thanks.
Thrice_G 2013 年 12 月 14 日 下午 12:34 
引用自 SwollenGoat
Can someone answer a question that I have not been able to find a straight answer on? Does SteamOS, as it is available now, provide Netflix streaming capabilities? Thanks.

No. It does not. They've said they hope to have that functionality sometime before launch.
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