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Renob

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Got to play around with one today they have a few set up in the lunch room at work, the machine is small and the controller funky but I will give it some time to see if it grows on me.

I liked the menu system and the games all looked and ran great think I will need to be getting me one for the living room seeing I have about 80 steam games.
 
I've been thinking about getting a machine, but I'm thinking the Steam Link and controller should suffice for playing games on the TV.
 
CPA said:
I've been thinking about getting a machine, but I'm thinking the Steam Link and controller should suffice for playing games on the TV.
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I'm hoping for the same. I have an NUC i5 currently serving as a streamer, and would like to decommission to use for something else.
 
I just have a PC with an i5 and a radeon hooked directly up to my projector, I used it a heck of a lot more than my dedicated gaming i5 box (this one has one 6870, the dedicated box has r290)
 
Renob said:
Got to play around with one today they have a few set up in the lunch room at work, the machine is small and the controller funky but I will give it some time to see if it grows on me.

I liked the menu system and the games all looked and ran great think I will need to be getting me one for the living room seeing I have about 80 steam games.
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It is $50 more for the Windows based Alienware alpha. Not seeing the appeal of this...
 
quikah said:
It is $50 more for the Windows based Alienware alpha. Not seeing the appeal of this...
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Well you either understand and appreciate what steam is trying to do with SteamOS or you don't I guess. I tend to agree with you - not totally clear on the advantages. Relative to the obvious disadvantages of using SteamOS - that is you don't get Windows or a real PC, SteamOS seems kind of odd. Unless the drivers are great and Linux does prove worthy of gaming. That'd be about the only advantage I can think of.

But then again I guess they're marketing this at console users so what do I know.
 
You get a real PC.

But for $50 more, you can get the same machine with Windows and open your possibilities up a bit more.

All your other gaming clients, for one.

Do DXInput games still fully support Xbox controllers in SteamOS?

There are literally no advantages to SteamOS.
 
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