steamOS (steam operating system) announced!

Steam is coming to a new operating system

As weve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, weve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

I'm interested in trying it out :)

You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!

Sounds good for people too lazy to move their PCs or buy longer cables and for people who don't use PCs for work.

sounds pretty neat

I got my desktop right beside my TV so this is totally pointless for me. Not going to build another PC just so I can play less games. 

This is simply absurd. Convert your fully functional PC to a half baked console experience. The very notion undermines the very purpose of playing games on a PC. But the drones will follow. :|

A clever temporary solution.

Though I still hope that they continue pushing native instead of network.

Well, that and don't turn into another canonical and start making incompatible standards with the system at large.

A clever temporary solution.

Though I still hope that they continue pushing native instead of network.

Well, that and don't turn into another canonical and start making incompatible standards with the system at large.

Mozuckint

Windows' days are numbered as the premier OS for PC gaming. Microsoft had better do something for PC gamers soon, over the next few years, or they are going to lose millions of users.

This is pretty much what I have been saying for months. Let people build their own "steamboxes". All that Valve has to provide is the entire software side of things, and possibly their own controller.

[QUOTE="Mozuckint"]

A clever temporary solution.

Though I still hope that they continue pushing native instead of network.

Well, that and don't turn into another canonical and start making incompatible standards with the system at large.

Toxic-Seahorse

Windows' days are numbered as the premier OS for PC gaming. Microsoft had better do something for PC gamers soon, over the next few years, or they are going to lose millions of users.

This is pretty much what I have been saying for months. Let people build their own "steamboxes". All that Valve has to provide is the entire software side of things, and possibly their own controller.

Falconoffury

This isn't going to kill windows. It's a streaming solution. Mozuckint

Streaming is a feature of the OS, but I wouldn't call it a "solution". The website detailing the Steam OS said that hundreds of games already run natively on it. Think about the long term. Steam is already a juggernaut with their digital store alone. Developers will make games specifically for the Steam OS, eventually. After enough years of refinements and improvements, the Steam OS could replace Windows as a gaming OS.

Personally I am excited for this. My pc and tv are pretty far from connecting to one another, and sounds to me this will be a good media center as well. I'll be able to stream my movies and televison shows from my pc as well, according to what i read on there. I'm interested if this thing will able to have two people playing at the same time, so say I was playing skyrim on the pc while my little sis is playing sonic through the steam os box on the television? 

I'm kinda dissapointed. I thought its fully blown OS that could rival windows.

[QUOTE="Toxic-Seahorse"][QUOTE="Mozuckint"]

A clever temporary solution.

Though I still hope that they continue pushing native instead of network.

Well, that and don't turn into another canonical and start making incompatible standards with the system at large.

Mozuckint

I have a hunch that soon Valve will announce Half-Life 3, but make it exclusive to this SteamOS. Considering the Half-Life franchise's God-like status, most people won't think twice about installing SteamOS just to play Half-Life 3. Or else they might make Half-life 3 available for both Windows and SteamOS, but offer the SteamOS version at a discounted price, so as to promote SteamOS.

Windows' days are numbered as the premier OS for PC gaming. Microsoft had better do something for PC gamers soon, over the next few years, or they are going to lose millions of users.

This is pretty much what I have been saying for months. Let people build their own "steamboxes". All that Valve has to provide is the entire software side of things, and possibly their own controller.

Falconoffury

I am on Windows 8.

I own over 150 PC games.

All of them work fine.

What is the problem with Windows again?

Interetsing, but I see no use for it for me. 

So basically willingly gimp yourself into a bastardized mix between a media PC and a console but ignoring the advantages of either.

such a useless  os, it will never  catch on. It's bad timing as  pc  sales  are  falling to  tablets.

So does this mean we no longer need Windows? We can just hop to Linux, and get the STEAM OS? 

So does this mean we no longer need Windows? We can just hop to Linux, and get the STEAM OS? 

SystemsGO

No, you'll need a Windows based PC to stream games that are currently unavailable for Linux.

Lol at all the people complaing about this. It just might not be marketed towards you, like the 2DS. SteamOS will be a dedicated gaming operating system without all of the fluff of Windows. See the part where it says "We have acheived significant increases in graphics processing"? With this, new games coming out will support SteamOS so there will be no need to stream. Al

Windows' days are numbered as the premier OS for PC gaming. Falconoffury

Is that the same when everyone said Windows' days were numbered when the iPad was supposed to take over business?

Oh dude, if they can bring music/video service to Steam along the lines of itunes or Amazon, I would be all over that.

interesting to see them go down this route. Pushing linux further. Maybe it will help grow the Linux gaming market. nutcrackr

[QUOTE="nutcrackr"]interesting to see them go down this route. Pushing linux further. Maybe it will help grow the Linux gaming market. alexside1

[QUOTE="alexside1"][QUOTE="nutcrackr"]interesting to see them go down this route. Pushing linux further. Maybe it will help grow the Linux gaming market. nutcrackr

Lol at all the people complaing about this. It just might not be marketed towards you, like the 2DS. SteamOS will be a dedicated gaming operating system without all of the fluff of Windows. See the part where it says "We have acheived significant increases in graphics processing"? With this, new games coming out will support SteamOS so there will be no need to stream. Al

MacBoomStick

[QUOTE="Falconoffury"]

Windows' days are numbered as the premier OS for PC gaming. FelipeInside

Is that the same when everyone said Windows' days were numbered when the iPad was supposed to take over business?

But apple kicked microsofts ass. Now Microsoft are trying to mimic apple,. just as the Xbox360 attempted to mimick nintendo with the wii.

[QUOTE="MacBoomStick"]

Lol at all the people complaing about this. It just might not be marketed towards you, like the 2DS. SteamOS will be a dedicated gaming operating system without all of the fluff of Windows. See the part where it says "We have acheived significant increases in graphics processing"? With this, new games coming out will support SteamOS so there will be no need to stream. Al

Toxic-Seahorse

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

[QUOTE="Falconoffury"]

Windows' days are numbered as the premier OS for PC gaming. uninspiredcup

Is that the same when everyone said Windows' days were numbered when the iPad was supposed to take over business?

But apple kicked microsofts ass. Now Microsoft are trying to mimic apple,. just as the Xbox360 attempted to mimick nintendo with the wii.

You do realize that Microsoft had a Tablet long before the iPad right?  And also a smartphone long before the iPhone right?

Right Products, Wrong Times...

[QUOTE="uninspiredcup"]

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

Is that the same when everyone said Windows' days were numbered when the iPad was supposed to take over business?

FelipeInside

But apple kicked microsofts ass. Now Microsoft are trying to mimic apple,. just as the Xbox360 attempted to mimick nintendo with the wii.

You do realize that Microsoft had a Tablet long before the iPad right?  And also a smartphone long before the iPhone right?

Right Products, Wrong Times...

I figured that Valve would eventually build their own OS, but I didn't think they would do it so soon, but knowing how gay Gabe is for Linux, it doesn't surprise me.  

My only concern is how well has Valve managed to convince current PC developers to begin (or begin again) programming for OpenGL.  Obviously, the move to OpenGL, if it happens, won't be overnight if Valve is successful at coercing the higher end game development community to move towards it.  However, Valve will definitely continue to support Steam on Windows because that's what the vast majority of users run Steam on.  

In the least, this will be interesting, and the possible performance gains in going SteamOS may make me willing to have it as a dual-boot option.

Who is going to build a PC to use a half baked gaming OS.... Unless every game gets native Linux support then this whole idea is sorta pointless. I dont see that happening any time soon.bonafidetk

[QUOTE="nutcrackr"][QUOTE="FelipeInside"] I've always wondered. Why do some people want Linux to grow in gaming if Windows does it already and perfectly fine? I'm all for products offering different things but Linux has always been the leader in top tier web servers and other type of servers, that's why it exists. FelipeInside

It's nothing new for so many of the very successful indie PC game houses out their, as many of them do not even use DX, even on Windows. Mainstream (big console & PC multiplatform centric devs) should not have a difficult time adjusting, especially if they throw DX out the wayside. The Xbox One is the only platform that requires DX and devs do not have to release titles on it.

Disregarding Xbox One, that leaves PS4, PC, OSX, Linux, SteamOS as mainstream OpenGL platforms and Android and iOS platforms as OpenGL ES platforms.  Now if only ES and "high end" OpenGL could be integrated...... 

.... just as the Xbox360 attempted to mimick nintendo with the wii.

uninspiredcup

 Microsoft is losing to the Wii and Wii U :|

[QUOTE="FelipeInside"]

[QUOTE="uninspiredcup"]

 

But apple kicked microsofts ass. Now Microsoft are trying to mimic apple,. just as the Xbox360 attempted to mimick nintendo with the wii.

bonafidetk

You do realize that Microsoft had a Tablet long before the iPad right?  And also a smartphone long before the iPhone right?

Right Products, Wrong Times...

This is simply absurd. Convert your fully functional PC to a half baked console experience. The very notion undermines the very purpose of playing games on a PC. But the drones will follow. :|

Pedro

[QUOTE="bonafidetk"]Who is going to build a PC to use a half baked gaming OS.... Unless every game gets native Linux support then this whole idea is sorta pointless. I dont see that happening any time soon.MacBoomStick

Fascinating. I wonder what it's going to be like. As much hype as this has received, there isn't a lot specifics as to how this is going to work. But if Steam OS can be turned into a desktop OS that's easy to use (compared to Linux distros of today), then that might turn me away from Windows for good.