SteamOS - Hackdot

Re:SteamOS by alisnic on Monday September 23, 2013 @01:08PM (#6432376)

The biggest benefit as I see it, is that the users won't have the hassle of setting something up: just install the OS and login. No drivers ppa, no recovery console, no xorg.conf patches. If this is true, Valve will do something very big for the gaming community.

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Re:SteamOS by dzddd on Monday September 23, 2013 @01:56PM (#6432819)

I don't believe that they'll even focus on users installing the OS, just like 99% of Windows users don't install their own OS. Valve will provide the reference SteamBox and encourage other manufacturers to release their own SteamOS-preinstalled boxes, giving users hardware options.

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Re:SteamOS by Mikeb85 on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:04PM (#6432916)

This is the end goal - but for the time being, it does seem aimed at tinkerers - the kind of people who already have a PC hooked up as an HTPC...

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Re:SteamOS by shardling on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:17PM (#6433023)

Keep in mind that this is the first of three announcements that they've, err, announced: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/

The second is in 48hrs, and almost definitely something related to the SteamBox. So it's too soon to speak of their intentions "for the time being".

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Re:SteamOS by dpacmittal on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @04:07PM (#6440382)

I think it's going to be more like what Google did with Android.

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