OH MY GOD
Dream do come true.
"All the games you love
Hundreds of great games are already running natively on SteamOS. Watch for announcements in the coming weeks about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014. Access the full Steam catalog of over nearly 3000 games and desktop software titles via in-home streaming."
What what what?! O_O
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Haha I just imagined that song playing as my armor-clad warrior falls off of a cliff while swinging at some insignificant hollow.
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If they put a music player in the in game steam interface, it would be a really great move.
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Been waiting for that moment for years...so so many years.
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Now i know why steam split it into 3 announcements :D
First announcement gave me an gamergasm that only just ended haha!! still quivering
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What if so many games still only runs on Windows?
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I assume SteamOS will be based on Linux and you can run old games just fine via emulator. For newer games A LOT will depends on how much Steam is committed to help in the transition.
Besides, he didn't ask why should he use only SteamOS forever, only why should he want it. :)
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perhaps they are building SteamOS so that EVERY game will run on it, no emulators needed. The only reason moat games are windows only is because of what's in the OS right? SO wouldn't it make sense, since Linux is open source and what they are building on, to find what parts of windows that Linux and Mac don't already have and program them into SteamOS? I mean, how hard could it be for them to do? The only reason it hasn't been done yet is because no one really wants to take the time to try it right?
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How hard? Off you go, then, I want to see a complete, functional implementation of all common Windows APIs with all known quirks and at least 90% application compatibility for all software released in the last 20 years. You have six months.
Good luck with that, hundreds of people have been working on it for over 20 years.
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I'm not a programmer. All these different version of Linux out there, if the time put into them were used to cooperatively make one, wouldn't it make more sense? all that talent, surely they could make one fully fuctional free OS with all the combined features required to run all he games. That's all I was saying. Perhaps Steam had a team working to do just that? no need to be an asshole
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You see there are a lot of linux distros because they usually serve different purposes.
Most linux distros share the same core (linux kernel ) and just have a different interface ( desktop environments ).
It's like having a lot of cars with a V8 beneath and just a different body.
But even with that,creating a program with GUI is not hard,since most extend on x11.
Writing 3d apps is even easier, as they mostly use opengl apis,which are pretty platform independent.Even tough opengl apis are a hell to work with...
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Most likely if you want the SteamBox. Otherwise, might be as optional as running Win XP, Vista, 7 or even Ubuntu.
You should be happy about them giving options so you can choose the best. If you dont like it, dont use it. Simple as that... I did it with Windows long time ago, couldn't be happier since.
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This is much more than what I expected. I already anticipated the in-home streaming thing, as they talked about Big Picture, but I didn't expected something like this.
Wow, just wow. And this is only the first of 3 announcements. Now, I do believe they are announcing Steambox (which will run Steam OS ofc).
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The cat figure on the photo makes that pretty clear.
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sounds like you can make your own steambox if you have a old laptop or something laying around install steam OS, then stream from gaming desktop to constantly plugged in "tv laptop" / "steambox"
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My computer is a desk computer that it's on one side of the house while the living room is on the opposite side...so this helps me a lot as I've always refused to lay a 20-30 m HDMI cable all through the house. And that's SteamOS' only purpose...
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It is nice, but having a OS that is for Steam alone will be pointless unless you buy a computer just for steam. Guess you could dual boot but it is a bit of hassle. If you want to surf the web while playing games will this be able to do that? only time will tell how this will play out.
There is also origin, desura, gog, etc games to worry about. so you will always need another OS to play that stuff.
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Its funny because I have a PC just for gaming already, I only run Windows for gaming.
So this is great for some that want to rid of Windows for good.
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But SteamOS is just Debian based GNU/Linux with Steam shell on top. You could already use Debian/Ubuntu/Mint if you did not want to use Windows. The only thing Steam4Linux can't do that "Steam integrated into Linux" will be able to do is streaming Windows games from the network source (and audio/video, of course, but you can do that outside of Steam in both Windows and Linux).
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Yes but from what I am reading this will gather support for Linux gaming and natively support bigger games so its still really nice to see and a big step to getting gaming big on Linux.
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I'm afraid steambox and steamos will just be dumbed down PC experience for console gamers. Imagine OS where the only browser is steam browser... or media player of choice is steam?
Not gonna work for most of us, if we'll have to install large parts of usual linux distro on top of it to make it fully functional. It will be easier to just use linux in the first place (as existing steam clients should get the same functionality, if I read correctly)
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To early to call I guess, I hope you are wrong though :-/...
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I'm StamOS
Dont know how should i feel about that announcement except from the fact that my name is almost similar to the SteamOS
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I have to remind you guys, this isn't made for the PC gamers as much as it's made for Console gamers.
I just mean the target audience.
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I sure hope this encourages developers/publishers to pay more attention to Linux as a platform. Would love to see "Out now, windows and mac versions coming soon!" in game descriptions within 5 years. People probably won't give up their Windows until that happens, but I know a lot of us already boot into windows solely for steam.
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If we ignore netbooks, low powered laptops, tablets and HTPCs then yes, this is absolutely useless!
If we consider the fact this will be a stripped down version of Linux suitable for all those devices I mentioned, then we could be onto something! I would hope that this will be tweaked and out perform almost any other distro out of the box when it comes to gaming on Steam.
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I... I am disappointed :/
I know I know, but still... I can't do anything with this.
Damn it Valve.
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SteamOS. omg!
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