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What's Your Hopes From Valve's SteamOS?
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Hopes for SteamOS? Why Would I Have Hopes?
I am not so excited by Valve's efforts, monumental though they are. My wishes are purely selfish when it comes to gaming on Linux. So does SteamOS solve my biggest bugbears with Linux gaming? Based on the info there is so far I can complete my simple checklist:
* Will it bring my favorite AAA tittles to my Linux desktop? - Unlikely. they *might* come to SteamOS.
* Will I be able to game with my friends without dual booting - Unlikely if I need to install SteamOS in order to play the games.
* Could I use SteamOS as a real Linux desktop? - Who knows.
From my own standpoint, there is nothing in the SteamOS announcement that makes me jump for joy or believe that Linux is really the future of gaming just yet. Maybe in a few years when the requisite development has been done and the SteamOS/Linux gaming market has taken shape, I will be able to see where it is going. Only then will I have something to buy into. But right now it offers me nothing more than idle curiosity. That said, Kyle Orland of Arstechnica hit the nail on the head: "If anyone has the clout to drag the gaming industry towards Linux, it's Valve."
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Originally posted by ronybeck View PostI am not so excited by Valve's efforts, monumental though they are. My wishes are purely selfish when it comes to gaming on Linux. So does SteamOS solve my biggest bugbears with Linux gaming? Based on the info there is so far I can complete my simple checklist:
* Will it bring my favorite AAA tittles to my Linux desktop? - Unlikely. they *might* come to SteamOS.
* Will I be able to game with my friends without dual booting - Unlikely if I need to install SteamOS in order to play the games.
* Could I use SteamOS as a real Linux desktop? - Who knows.
From my own standpoint, there is nothing in the SteamOS announcement that makes me jump for joy or believe that Linux is really the future of gaming just yet. Maybe in a few years when the requisite development has been done and the SteamOS/Linux gaming market has taken shape, I will be able to see where it is going. Only then will I have something to buy into. But right now it offers me nothing more than idle curiosity. That said, Kyle Orland of Arstechnica hit the nail on the head: "If anyone has the clout to drag the gaming industry towards Linux, it's Valve."
Originally posted by johnc View PostThat isn't a particularly controversial claim since nvidia doesn't even have an APU yet. Unless you consider this Maxwell stuff (which won't be shipping for awhile) and since it's not based on x86, it's somewhat less relevant.
It does seem likely that the Steam Box could be AMD hardware which is frankly astonishing to me considering AMD has basically no Linux presence, pretty awful GPU drivers and horrible video playback options. But I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
Originally posted by johnc View PostLooking forward to tomorrow's announcement... I'll take a stab in the dark and say that the low-end, streaming-only device is going to be a Tegra 5. NVIDIA did a lot of work with Valve to do their Shield streaming (I think it only works with Steam?) and Valve has already talked about this feature w/ SteamOS... so the partnership isn't completely impossible. And if it's a streaming-only device it probably wouldn't need an Intel CPU.
What's you guys thinkin?Last edited by b15hop; 24 September 2013, 11:39 PM.
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Originally posted by b15hop View PostWell apparently the steam box will be a live gaming machine. I've also read someone stating that it's running Tegra 5 hardware. Have a look at this:
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My hopes would be that Valve continues on their current path of helping to improve Linux for gaming in a overall technical capacity, but more importantly (for me) is that this gaming push by Valve might result in increased resources aimed at improving the open source in-kernel drivers for discrete gpu's so that we can rid ourselves of proprietary hardware drivers and all the problems they bring (security, stability) once and for all.
As for Valve's intentions, it seems clear to me that they want to become the 'Android' of PC gaming. By offering the 'SteamOS' for free to third parties who can all build their own 'Steamboxes' which will then use Valve's Steam service, just like Google gives away android so that third parties will use their services (play, chrome, etc).
Will be interesting to see if they succeed, either way Linux has already benefited from their efforts, so thanks Valve.
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