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Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box by __alexs on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @06:13AM (#5025722)
It doesn't go direct to Big Picture mode though and you still have to click through UAC and firewall alerts when launching newly installed games quiet frequently. Having full control of the software stack lets them take out quite a friction points.
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Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box by jiggy2011 on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @06:21AM (#5025750)
Adding an option to boot directly to big picture mode would be a huge problem and the Steam Windows client automatically adds firewall exceptions etc for games that you install.

Since I mainly use Linux my Windows 7 PC is basically a Steam box already.

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Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box by CrazedGeek on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @11:42AM (#5026986)
For what it's worth, there actually is an option to boot directly to Big Picture mode.
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Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box by deltasquared on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @06:44AM (#5025809)
Likewise, my Windows 7 PC runs Steam only.
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