SteamOS, and the future of PC gaming

[Thor.]

One thing i can't wrap my head around in Linux is the fangled console, I am hoping steam os would at least have its own install shield like windows.

[Nimboss]

Linux as a game platform has never left the ground, it has the technology and is real good but all the chattered versions and distributions makes it a blandly soup for a developer to consider. A strong partner like Valve that can concentrate and support a stable platform like with Steam OS might be what Linux needs to be a game platform to count with.

 

It will be interesting to test Steam OS, when ever it is released for now it's just a lot of buzz in media and little to play with.

[Deleted954101User]

Bottom line for me is that is Fallout4 and Nexus Mod Manager are not released for SteamOS, I won't be using SteamOS :geek:

[FMod]

I use Windows and don't use NMM... individual per-game mod management utilities work right about 3/4 of the time, NMM half the time. That's hardly something to base your choice of platform on.

 

You're lucky if SteamOS supports mods at all.

[fuzz3289]

Bottom line for me is that is Fallout4 and Nexus Mod Manager are not released for SteamOS, I won't be using SteamOS :geek:

Psh, SteamOS will have so many modders and dev's mod managers will look useless. Anything linux based is far more customizable than anything else. 5 years from now you'll be wondering why anyone ever played games on Windows with how much of a pain in the ass it is to mod anything.

[JimboUK]

 

Bottom line for me is that is Fallout4 and Nexus Mod Manager are not released for SteamOS, I won't be using SteamOS :geek:

Psh, SteamOS will have so many modders and dev's mod managers will look useless. Anything linux based is far more customizable than anything else. 5 years from now you'll be wondering why anyone ever played games on Windows with how much of a pain in the ass it is to mod anything.

 

 

We're going to end up dual booting if it does take off which is a pain in the backside.

[Thor.]

If mantle really does take off, though i have yet to see that other then Dice we may have a Linux slow revolution ahead of us. Dual Booting is a pain indeed.

[Nimboss]

Well I bought myself an Xmas present and included two mechanical hard drives of 1TB each just to make sure SteamOS would not clutter with my W7 64 bit install if whatever update could not handle dual boot. I have to press F12 (false cry, sod sod) every time to select SteamOS if I want to boot it, but dual/tripple/quad boot years ago was the only way to have more than one OS on a disk so I have no problem with it as I don't see that as a major problem (unless you need pure windows programs for modding otherwise most things available for the Linux world should be possible to install on SteamOS instead).

 

SteamOS has its flaws if you run it as a desktop OS for games like me, sound is still twisted since it defaults to use HDMI for sound always and refusing to use the MB analog soundcard. However using the alpha/beta version makes it changeable and saveable with some simpler tweaks without all cryptic hard core l33t fancy stuff that pooped up everywhere. But it is OVERWRITTEN with major updates from Valve, that put you on square zero again, that thing they must fix if they want power PC gamers to play with this thing!

I presume if I hooked this PC to a HDMI screen with HDMI sound this problem would be none existent since Valve focus on console for the moment.

 

I have not bought many titles that has Linux versions but the few and Valve's own HL2 games looks and have the same speed as in the windows PC version.

 

I'm curious about the hand controller some people are lyrical about, it's still in beta. It would be nice to be able to buy and test the real thing with all the bells and whistles it is supposed to have when they release it.

 

I had to add that this "PC" is quite high end since I had to buy something that I could use for anything else if SteamOS ever fails epic, but I have a hard time to think that will happen. It seems this is the right time for someone like Valve to change the tide. Time will tell.

[Thor.]

Steam OS is a joke, its a linux clone with Steam Logo on it. Its about time amd and Nvidia made solid drivers for it though. Steam OS should at least make Wine default, it would make compatible sense.