Valve announces SteamOS

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i want steamos on a portable device with good bottons and screen. i want it cheap and light and i will use it to stream thr shit out of it
 
2nd announcement: Steambox

3rd: Source 2 native to Linux and fully license able. Half-Life 3 to showcase it.
 
Hundreds of great games are already running natively on SteamOS. Watch for announcements in the coming weeks about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014.
 
This might not be a big deal right now, but if MS keeps going the way they are this may save PC gaming circa 5-10 years from now.
 
Guys, also remember the DirectX to OpenGL wrapper that Valve alluded to in those blog entries about the process of porting Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux.

"Planning on releasing a Windows game on Steam? Have some free tools to painlessly port it to SteamOS."

That sort of thing. Probably a part of Steamworks.
 
Dukey said:
From the sound of it, it's good for PC gamers. For me as a non-PC gamer this does absolutely nothing to make me become one. Linux...blech.
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You know you're missing out on a ton of great games? This is the type of thing you *should* be interested in as you're the target audience.
 
Maedhros said:
I seriously think that putting the PC next to the television and using Steam Controllermodething is a better solution...
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That is not something that is easy for regular users. There is a lot less value for your money if you want something that you do not have to assemble yourself and you would also have problems with the size and maybe also loudness.
 
Fingers crossed that this is the precursor to a Steambox announcement. This could be the key to bringing the price of the box down to competitive levels.
 
Now the streaming sounds cool as fuck, just give me the box now Valve!.

This sounds so awesome.

PS4 + SteamBox for next gen goodness. DROOL.
 
Tybolt said:
there's about a million other ways to send your PC signal to a TV without using this and a second machine as an emissary.
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What's the best way to do this? I have my desktop upstairs and my TV downstairs. Can't run an HDMI cable long enough and I want to use my wired 360 controller.
 
Why would i need a extra steamOs machine to stream my Pc content on TV? arent there already devices that could handle something like this?

Its sounds at the moment like nothing special at all
 
If the next circle is a roughly $100 smal fanless box with an HDMI port that you can just hook to your TV to stream your gaming PC to, ala VitaTV for PCs, I'll be stupid amounts of excited to get my hands on that.
 
To me this only seems appealing as a box for streaming. That way you could use a cheap small box and run PC games.

If you're going to spend all the money necessary for a dedicated setup why would you put SteamOS on it?
 
Maedhros said:
I seriously think that putting the PC next to the television and using Steam Controllermodething is a better solution...
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It probably is, but it is not a solution for me as a I need my PC inmy office, but I also want to lay the, on a big screen. Constantly unplugging and moving the machine is not something I'm interested in, so this is ideal for me.

Hopefully there will be a small Apple TV like device working strictly as a receiver from my PC and nothing else.
 
I absolutely do not get the point. Obviously its one of those "not for me" things, but you'd think Windows or OSX or whatever we're unuseable shit and firing up Steam was some incredibly arduous task.
 
Awesome news. Only thing I'm worry about is driver support.

Save $100 on my pc build if I don't have to buy windows. Glad it will be a year at least before I build my rig.
 
Lasthope106 said:
I just don't understand how Valve does it. They are a company of less than 300 people and are able to make award winning games, developer tools, content distribution system and now a freaking OS. Are Valve employees the most productive humans the world has ever seen? Jeez. How are they able to work on so many complex projects at once - I just don't get it.
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They make very few games, their developer tools aren't much different from where they were a decade ago (Hammer is ancient) and their user interfaces and customer support are awful. The 'freaking OS' is for the most part a tweaked Linux distro with Big Picture mode set to autorun (and that's all it needs to be). They're very productive, but they're not superhuman.
 
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A nice picture of Gabe I rarely see online. 2007 talking about the future of PC. Sometimes I wonder if this was part of the plan or just a reaction to the way things have developed with 8.
 
I wish they had a screenshot of it. I wonder if it will basically be big picture mode as an OS, or if it will be usable for more traditional desktop stuff. If it really does have performance increases over other Linux distros, I could see myself putting on my laptop if other Linux desktop apps work well.
 
The_Monk said:
Thank you for this fellow GAFfer.

Just one question, let's say I have a PC with Steam OS and I want to stream from my current PC/Laptop to my SteamOS Pc. Does streaming require a Good PC to handle most of these (demanding) games? And for that, do I need a decent PC or a decent SteamOS PC?

I'm sorry if this is silly but I'm trying to still understand how streaming works. I need to know if it's needed a Good PC (specs wise) for Streaming or even the SteamOS PC needs to powerful or, neither.

Again, I'm really not into this Streaming service, so if someone can answer this, thank you in advance.
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All the computation will be happening on the Windows PC so you'll need a good one there. The SteamOS PC, the one the stuff is being streamed to and relayed to the TV, doesn't have to be anything special, but it can' t be a complete piece of junk.
 
Well, that is part one of my prediction right. Also right about the next part coming wednesday. I feel lucky for part 2 to be the hardware solutions.
 
opticalmace said:
Based on what? I think the idea here is to make it simple and easy to use. If you start letting users install programs and treat it as a regular distro you're moving away from that. Isn't that the point of this? Something "console easy" for people who don't normally bother with PC gaming?

I expect this to boot straight into Steam and that's it.
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Why not both?

Seriously.
 
Ok sounds cool? If it could replace something that i never did comfy couch pc gaming. Don't know what direction they want to take this. Even on my PC i don't see the use of it now and it only supports linux games right?
 
SteamOS will be available soon as a free download for users and as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers. Stay tuned in the coming days for more information.
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Maybe they are going the Google Android/Nexus route and are going to have other manufacturers have the OS preinstalled. Thats the vibe i'm getting from the above also considering, didn't they let go some prominent employees that were researching/developing hardware?
 
IT Slave said:
It's not just Windows compatibility issues. If this thing is going to run on TVs and BD players, these things won't have the hardware to run PC games outside of Candy Crush.
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The way I read it, your gaming PC is still doing the heavy lifting. Steam box or living room PC would just handle streaming

Zombie James said:
That's the only thing I don't like. I would have hoped they'd have a Wine-based solution.
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I don't see it as a permanent solution but moreso as a clever bridge that allows gamers, publishers and devs to interface with the new OS and transition smoothly without abruptly changing the way they interact with one another.
 
Tybolt said:
Given the fact that you'd need a top of the line PC and a very good secondary system to handle the streaming to the TV in the first place, this only really seems to be for Steam fans who want to play on their TV sometimes.

I don't understand the appeal here. It's cool that they're at least doing it but the whole thing is a fairly roundabout and unnecessary process, there's about a million other ways to send your PC signal to a TV without using this and a second machine as an emissary.
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Hardware tiers .. Computer manufactures can build any steam os driven set they want. You could get $99 indie game player media streamer. You could get $300 mid level set up or a $800 high end set up.

Dell, Samsung, hp, acer ... Any company really can make and sell a steam device.
 
PG2G said:
To me this only seems appealing as a box for streaming. That way you could use a cheap small box and run PC games.

If you're going to spend all the money necessary for a dedicated setup why would you put SteamOS on it?
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Because there will be games that run on it. Not the whole back catalog, but hopefully enough to appeal to people.
 
Zornack said:
All the computation will be happening on the Windows PC so you'll need a good one there. The SteamOS PC, the one the stuff is being streamed to and relayed to the TV, doesn't have to be anything special, but it can' t be a complete piece of junk.
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Thank you for answering fellow GAFfer.

So a good PC with proper specs and then a more humble PC just to handle the Streaming, it seems.
 
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