Valve Wants to Make PC a Better Entertainment Platform

[killerclick]

You are hillarious, u know that.

I stopped reading at 'u'
But please, write some more

 

[back_by_demand]

A PC with Windows is already a better entertainment platform - plays all your Steam games and non-Steam games, runs all the video services and music and internet and everything everything everything everything EVERYTHING else - there is nothing that SteamOS does that Windows can't do more of

 

[rolandzhang3]

Well it is nice to shake up the OEM market, hopefully that way we'd have less people buying overpriced systems.

 

[ram1009]

Enough with the if, and & buts!! It will evolve in the direction we push it. Try it when it's available and see if you like it.

 

[wysir]

A PC with Windows is already a better entertainment platform - plays all your Steam games and non-Steam games, runs all the video services and music and internet and everything everything everything everything EVERYTHING else - there is nothing that SteamOS does that Windows can't do more of

It keeps an extra $100 or so in your wallet. =)

 

[DarkSable]

So, you could stream games to the living room right now for $20 by running a couple of cables (HDMI+USB hub) along the network cable?

Nope. It would require running additional cat5e/cat6 cables - you can't just lump extras in with the network cable, nice as that would be.

So, it's $0 but what do you get for $0? An OS that can play only Linux games as well as your existing HTPC hardware allows (do you have a Linux distro on your HTPC already? if not, why not?) and the ability to stream games from another part of the house, which would make your gaming machine pretty much unusable for work during that time (again, just run a HDMI cable and USB hub alongside your network cable and you won't even need your HTPC for gaming). If you really needed to stream games from another part of your house, you would have done it already.

The biggest point of this is that it's trying to bring more games to linux. Also, I don't know why you keep insisting that my computer can't let me work while it's rendering a game in the background - that's absolutely incorrect; I have more than enough power for it.

Doesn't sound even close to a typical usage scenario, which is why I said that Steam OS will be a failure in terms of market adoption. The number of people who use their PC for gaming intersected with the number of people who don't have or want consoles intersected with the number of people who want to have games in their living room. For Steam OS to take off, it will need a lot of users

And THIS is why you're a troll... you took part of my post that was explaining why my computer would still be able to work fine while streaming... and said that my argument was invalid because it's not a typical user scenario? What?

I agree that steam OS needs a lot of users to encourage linux gaming to take off, but that's an unrelated point.