Valve announces SteamOS

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Ysiadmihi said:
Not out yet, eh? Starting to get a little hype even though I probably won't find myself using it much.
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Not yet. F5'ing the Steamuniverse group and the livingroom/steamos page habitually - but not even sure if this is the right place for the hopefully soon upcoming news...
 
Nymerio said:
A question about home streaming: Have they announced any plans to support streaming to the steam app on tablets/phones?
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Valve definitely wants to expand Steam's role on mobile devices, but they haven't announced any detailed plans for this yet.
 
Hmhm, you say that I could do something else, now?

I've read Marlamin's post and it's cool that there is already a pre-app controller layout for Starbound. These guys are pretty fast. And Spelunky? Spelunky is still Windows-only :/
 
sofiabudapest said:
Hmhm, you say that I could do something else, now?

I've read Marlamin's post and it's cool that there is already a pre-app controller layout for Starbound. These guys are pretty fast. And Spelunky? Spelunky is still Windows-only :/
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The optimist in me likes to think that the Windows-only games with listed control schemes are at least candidates for SteamOS ports in the near future.
 
Orayn said:
The optimist in me likes to think that the Windows-only games with listed control schemes are at least candidates for SteamOS ports in the near future.
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That's what I'd like to think to, which means Ubi could be on board or is at least willing to experiment. Then again I always thought if it were between EA and Ubi, the latter would have a bigger chance in trying this out.
 
Interested to see it in action, but I'll be leaving the betatesting to others. Hopefully the tested guys will be right on it all and have some footage up over the coming days.
 
Back then Coomer also asked what people's #1 feature request for SteamOS is

https://twitter.com/gregcoomer/status/382720009891356672

also retweeted a couple, some of them are jokes of course, but might be an indication what to expect otherwise

https://twitter.com/youyou1420/status/382722154837860352
https://twitter.com/crypticsea/status/382723783049502722
https://twitter.com/Isla_Es/status/382731128844480512
https://twitter.com/johndrinkwater/status/382736983719952384
https://twitter.com/yaakov_h/status/382737584599748609
https://twitter.com/johndrinkwater/status/382792769913098240
https://twitter.com/vtor67/status/382738703782649858
https://twitter.com/stefanheher/status/382751558272053248
https://twitter.com/HumanityPlague/status/382747802146594816

lol:
https://twitter.com/Peewi/status/382745046853767168
https://twitter.com/Fragii/status/382760743739080704
https://twitter.com/hanknova/status/382872809627611136
 
Does anyone know if I'll be able to dual-boot this without losing my current installation of Windows 8? if I have to format I probably won't install SteamOS right away.
 
Wonko_C said:
Does anyone know if I'll be able to dual-boot this without losing my current installation of Windows 8? if I have to format I probably won't install SteamOS right away.
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Yes, unless the boot manager screws up. And that is fixable, even if it's kinda annoying to do.
 
Wonko_C said:
Does anyone know if I'll be able to dual-boot this without losing my current installation of Windows 8? if I have to format I probably won't install SteamOS right away.
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You could even probably install it on a USB hard drive without touching your internal drives at all - I did that successfully with Ubuntu back when they first introduced Linux support.
 
UnrealEck said:
I really doubt that any performance difference related solely to SteamOS vs Windows will be much more than negligible.
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While it probably won't show in benchmarks, Linux' superior filesystems and memory management and it's realtime capabilities might lead to a noticeably smoother user experience - depending on how Valve configured SteamOS, of course.
 
UnrealEck said:
I really doubt that any performance difference related solely to SteamOS vs Windows will be much more than negligible.
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Why?
We are talking about operating systems here. Quite fundamental pieces of software who both run with totally different code under the hood.
By which I mean: IF we would see a big difference in performance, wouldn't it be attributed to the operating systems? In the past all you could do was buy better hardware to run a game better. Going forward, I think the OS choice will also now matter.

Didn't game developers say DirectX is a train wreck?
 
Is there going to be a download appear on the Steam OS page or will it be through steam store, software?

Are there going to be system requirements along the lines of: [?]
What Valve hasn't said, but we can surmise from previously released information, is that you're going to need a very, very fast desktop to run SteamOS successfully. The Steam Machines are believed to use Intel Core processors. The only CPU we know for certain that will fully support SteamOS is Intel's quad-core Core i7-4770.

SteamOS also appears to need a lot of memory. The Steam Machines are supposed to come with 16GBs of RAM.

You'll also need a mid-to-high-end Nvidia graphics card. We know the top of the line Steam Machines will use Nvidia's GeForce GTX Titan with its thousand-dollar price tag. Fortunately, you'll also be able to use the more affordable Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, GTX 760 or GTX 780 cards.

Valve's Steam games originally ran on Ubuntu but Valve has gone its own way with its Linux distribution. So, in addition to having some seriously well-muscled hardware, you'd be wise to listen to Coomer when he said that SteamOS in its early days will be for Linux hackers, rather than someone who just wants to play a game.
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I think these questions will be answerable later today, or maybe someone knows; I'm just excited. It will be interesting to hear peoples' impressions in the near future.
 
Wonko_C said:
Does anyone know if I'll be able to dual-boot this without losing my current installation of Windows 8? if I have to format I probably won't install SteamOS right away.
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Absolutely should be able to. It'll most likely install a thing called GRUB, which will be your new boot-up manager that starts immediately after the bios screen. From there you can select the OS you want to boot into (and, usually, by default it autoboots the linux install after 10 seconds. This can be customized to whatever you want.)

Metalic Sand said:
Any chances SteamOS could work on a USB flash drive?
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It could, but if you're inexperienced with doing such a thing, you might have to wait for someone to make an image you can flash onto your flash drive.
 
morningbus said:
Absolutely should be able to. It'll most likely install a thing called GRUB, which will be your new boot-up manager that starts immediately after the bios screen. From there you can select the OS you want to boot into (and, usually, by default it autoboots the linux install after 10 seconds. This can be customized to whatever you want.)
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Will that work even with UEFI enabled?
 
Will this SteamOs finally fix the offline mode issue? (2 weeks offline mode only or else you get error no log in credentials message).
 
paolo11 said:
Will this SteamOs finally fix the offline mode issue? (2 weeks offline mode only or else you get error no log in credentials message).
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According to Valve it has been fixed many months ago. http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/864969953572102601/#c864969953730401285

This is not actually true - Offline Mode is designed to be indefinite. You can't access any of Steam's online features such as friends lists or saved game synchronization, of course, but the client should allow you to run in Offline Mode for as long as you like.

That said, there are many components involved in Offline Mode, and some of them have known issues and bugs which we are continually working to improve. We're aware that it doesn't always work as flawlessly as we want it to, but please keep reporting bugs with Offline Mode. It is not broken 'by design'.

EDITED Nov 4 2013 - holy thread necro. Looks like Kotaku decided to link to this post from six months ago, and every game blog has copy-pasted it. The "two week" timeout issue has been fixed for months now, along with several other bugs. We're still working on improvements, and you might catch them if you read the patch notes carefully, but we don't bother to post on the forums every time we fix something (maybe out of fear that it will get posted as front-page news six months later?).
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I'm very interested in this, but since I'm not very talented with computer-tinkering, I probably won't jump right-away ( as I might screw my computer up, or so I fear ). Will be interesting to read impressions, though!
 
Lé Blade Runner;93574653 said:
I'm very interested in this, but since I'm not very talented with computer-tinkering, I probably won't jump right-away ( as I might screw my computer up, or so I fear ). Will be interesting to read impressions, though!
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Why not run it in Vmware or VirtualBox? That's what I'll be doing to give it a test.
 
cookie-monster said:
Ubuntu based. Slowly but surely diverging from Debian (and all other Linux distros, the Ubuntu website doesn't even contain the word 'Linux' anymore).
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It's supposedly not based on anything but built entirely from scratch. The only thing it apparently has in common with Debian or Ubuntu is the APT package manager. And why not? Setting up a purpose-built embedded distro is quite easy. They don't need 99% of the stuff in the Debian or Ubuntu repos, and they probably don't want to use their system or kernel configurations either as they were not optimized for gaming.
 
Lé Blade Runner;93574961 said:
I have to admit: I had to google these. Now that I have, I might try it on VirtualBox. Sounds easy enough.
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Yeah it's pretty easy. Vmware might be a bit easier but both aren't hard at all, just look up some tutorials.
 
This bit from the zdnet article has to be one of the dumbest bits of tech analysis I have ever seen on the internet:

"SteamOS also appears to need a lot of memory. The Steam Machines are supposed to come with 16GBs of RAM."
 
If this rolls out today I'll give it a shot. I'm pretty proficient with Linux and I'm very interested in this. Only concern I have is not having enough time to do this and play video games, I might have to prioritize here :P
 
Don't really see the point to be honest, if it is going to be a straight up pure gaming os that just boots into steam then that's useless for people who use their machine for more than just gaming.
 
TheLegendOfMart said:
Don't really see the point to be honest, if it is going to be a straight up pure gaming os that just boots into steam then that's useless for people who use their machine for more than just gaming.
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There is an option to enable the desktop if you want it. But anyway the first target for this is steam machines which are basically pcs connected to your tv. So most likely you dont even want to do much more then play games, music and watch movies with it.

edit: But because its open you can do whatever you want with it. So if running a dedicated web server or using 3D modeling program is what you want to do with it nobody is stopping you.
 
Stallion Free said:
This bit from the zdnet article has to be one of the dumbest bits of tech analysis I have ever seen on the internet:

"SteamOS also appears to need a lot of memory. The Steam Machines are supposed to come with 16GBs of RAM."
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Good god.

TheLegendOfMart said:
Don't really see the point to be honest, if it is going to be a straight up pure gaming os that just boots into steam then that's useless for people who use their machine for more than just gaming.
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Yeah, I don't see the point in an Xbone or PS4, either.
 
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