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cbrunny

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SteamOS is available today for download here: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/.

Who is going to give it a try?

I am sure that I will be, but I'm not sure if I'll use it regularly... It will depend entirely on how much of a performance change there is between my Windows setup.

I'm speculating it is coming after 5PM EST on Dec 13: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements

The 300 selected beta testers are being notified today (at about 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time) that they’ll soon receive Steam hardware and SteamOS for testing.
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then later..

SteamOS will be made available when the prototype hardware ships. It will be downloadable by individual users and commercial OEMs.
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and then later..

But unless you’re an intrepid Linux hacker already, we’re going to recommend that you wait until later in 2014 to try it out.
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This more or less gets me in a game. Not going to go through the sake of software configuration change, for the sake of software configuration change, to do something I have been able to do before just fine.
 
I won't be trying it out, simply because it doesn't offer me anything extra for the hassle of configuring it and finding out what works and what doesn't.

Steam runs just fine and all the games I currently play are Windows compatible.

If they baked in some functionality I was actually interested in (like say full HTPC capabilities *wink wink Volvo*), I'd be a lot more inclined to beta test their OS.
 
cbrunny said:
I am sure that I will be, but I'm not sure if I'll use it regularly... It will depend entirely on how much of a performance change there is between my Windows setup.
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If you have a Nvidia card then performance will be about the same. May, be better, may be worst depending on title.

If you have an AMD card, stick to windows.
 
Hmm, I see what they are trying to do with the kernel... (pretty much tweak it for games), but, I am wondering just how much that helps.
I suppose you could call it a 'console OS', with a very light desktop manager.
 
Since I have spare hard drives lying around I will give it a shot, probably after Christmas. I was thinking about converting my htpc to Linux anyways.
 
Childs said:
Since I have spare hard drives lying around I will give it a shot, probably after Christmas. I was thinking about converting my htpc to Linux anyways.
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Yeah, if SteamOS gets a netflix/hulu/amazon video streaming app this should make for a very nice HTPC OS. It shouldn't be difficult to get XBMC running on it, and with the in home streaming of steam titles from another machine, you could have something as small as a Roku that allows you to play all your games and watch movies/TV.
 
el-Capitan said:
Does this yet allow to stream games to another PC?
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I don't think SteamOS is needed for streaming. Streaming options are already showing up in the Windows Steam client. I tried double logging into my account today on both my desktop and laptop. My desktop client got booted but then like magic my laptop client show streaming options. But they don't work yet. There's a thread about it in the Steam streaming group.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/630799997412495136/?tscn=1387054763
 
NickelPlate said:
I don't think SteamOS is needed for streaming. Streaming options are already showing up in the Windows Steam client. I tried double logging into my account today on both my desktop and laptop. My desktop client got booted but then like magic my laptop client show streaming options. But they don't work yet. There's a thread about it in the Steam streaming group.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream/discussions/0/630799997412495136/?tscn=1387054763
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Wow! That is great news. Thanks for the link.
 
I was going to try it out on my old Gaming rig but the found out that it required UEFI to even install. So that ruled out that machine and don't really fell like trowing in another hdd to my new rig to try
 
It looks like I'm going to have to convert my PC into a HTPC since my gaming room will soon be turned into a nursery. I'm tossing around some different ideas for an input device such as a wireless keyboard with a built in mousepad for general internet use and possibly the new steam controller for actual gaming.

If the part where streaming games from a pc through the network actually works nicely I may just tuck my pc away somewhere and put a basic tower in the living room. But on the other hand, that is kind of stupid since the PC has to be somewhere with a monitor anyways so I might as well just throw the main rig next to the TV in the living room and keep windows 7 on i t.

I suppose if I ever find a way to get my office back I would appreciate the benefit of being able to game in both location via streaming from the pc which would give me reason to put steamos on a box in the living room.

Until that time, I feel that I will have no use for it. I think that it will be a pleasing addition once it comes down to it though.
 
Didn't realise this would be so difficult to dual boot... I'm going to wait. Not interested in wiping my computer for a Linux Beta...
 
Pandora's Box said:
Until my whole steam library works in Linux, not interested. AKA never
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That is what I see as the biggest issue as well, where games that are windows only will not work.

cbrunny said:
Didn't realise this would be so difficult to dual boot... I'm going to wait. Not interested in wiping my computer for a Linux Beta...
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It should not be too hard, disconnect windows drive(drives), hook up a spare hdd for SteamOS, install SteamOS, hook up original drive(drives) and use the motherboard boot selection option to switch between the two
 
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