SteamOS, Steam Machines, Steam Controller

Swaffy · Sep 29, 2013 4:40 PM

Source: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom?snr=1_4_4__118

What do you guys think? I believe it's a cool idea, especially the part about
the OS being a Linux-based OS, but I wouldn't fork out the money for it all.
I'm just too poor to go about buying systems and such.

Flapjacks · Sep 29, 2013 8:41 PM

I'm interested in the controller. When they're available, I want to grab one and see how they work. The idea of the SteamOS is interesting, but a friend and I had a conversation on how games that run on it will likely use wine to convert the windows libs so that non-linux games would work on SteamOS. This could also mean all games on Steam will have Linux compatibility. However, the problem with converting the windows libs with wine is that windows libs are just that, windows libs. They were meant for windows. This is why when you use wine to get an .exe file working on your mac or linux machine, particularly 3D games, they're very slow and glitchy. Yes, in this situation, they do have the advantage of being able to port the libs themselves instead of directly using wine, but this will still result in a lot of higher-end games running badly, since instead of them being ported to work with linux, only the libs used were ported. This means that to run SteamOS, you'll either need a very high end PC or a Steam machine (assuming they're more optimized for this.) However, we still don't know if this is the way Steam will really make SteamOS work, we were just giving it our best guess.

Swaffy · Sep 30, 2013 5:52 PM

Regarding system compatibility with the Steam games, I just read this page
and it seems like Steam is already compatible with systems running Linux,
perhaps it won't be as much of an issue that it seems like. Now if we were
going from Windows to MAC OS (God forbid, ugh) then there will be trouble.

Here: [link]

Stormy · Sep 30, 2013 8:34 PM

It seems like a good idea, but I don't play nearly enough PC games to get excited about it.

I really can't imagine playing any game with that controller... which makes me think it would probably be good for FPSs. tongue

Spyrorocks · Sep 30, 2013 11:36 PM

Games that are compatible with linux on steam are usually also compatible with osx.

Flapjacks · Oct 01, 2013 3:27 AM

Swaffy wrote:

Regarding system compatibility with the Steam games, I just read this page
and it seems like Steam is already compatible with systems running Linux,
perhaps it won't be as much of an issue that it seems like. Now if we were
going from Windows to MAC OS (God forbid, ugh) then there will be trouble.
Here: [link]

Something tells me you don't know that just because steam works on linux means all of steam's games work on linux...?

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SteamOS, Steam Machines, Steam Controller

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