SteamOS is releasing tomorrow.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

The SteamOS is releasing tomorrow. Is anyone going to try it out?

http://www.videogamer.com/news/steam..._tomorrow.html

The first release of SteamOS will be available to download from tomorrow, December 13, Valve has announced.

However, the developer doesn't recommend that users try it out until next year unless they're already "an intrepid Linux hacker". The operating system will be available to download for free to individual users and via commercial OEMs.
SteamOS is a new operating system based on Linux that has been specifically designed for gaming.

Valve says that the operating system "combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen" and claims that it will let "the hardware industry... iterate in the living room at a much faster pace than they've been able to" before.

I wonder what it has for us gamers? I currently have Windows 8.1 installed, and I don't want to wipe what I currently have just to try this out. However, I am probably going to wait a good while to see how this new OS goes. I wonder how FFXIV: ARR would run on it?

[Pseudopsia]

I'm going to pass. I do hope it becomes popular so more games are released for it.

Something to keep in mind is that it's Linux based so any hope to make FFXIV work you would need to use Wine. I don't know the status of the Wine project is, if it's working or not.

If you are going to try this I suggest installing it on a separate computer or if you know what you are doing create dual boot setup on another partition.

[Yuichi]

I wont be trying it till I get a Steam box.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I'm probably going to skip on it to begin with as I've never done Linux before. Do you think it will have a lot more graphical options than what Windows offers us?

[Haibel]

The SteamOS is releasing tomorrow. Is anyone going to try it out?

http://www.videogamer.com/news/steam..._tomorrow.html



I wonder what it has for us gamers? I currently have Windows 8.1 installed, and I don't want to wipe what I currently have just to try this out. However, I am probably going to wait a good while to see how this new OS goes. I wonder how FFXIV: ARR would run on it?

Why would you have to wipe what you got going. make a partition, load it there. Hell if it's just another linux distro.Make a live boot usb drive,
it's how I use Ubuntu. Personally I have yet to see anything from any Linux distro that is any danger to Microsoft. AMD and Nvidia making new
API's are more concerning for MS then Linux has ever been. It's not that I don't like linux, I'm a supporter. Until somebody makes a Linux distro that
is largely dummy resistant. OSX and Windows will be go to OS's. also if somebody does do that, it will be stompped to death anyway, remember Lindows / Linspire.

But to answer the question. I haven't heard of the OS till this thread. I may check it out, if I have the time. which with 2.1 on the way and I have
two weeks off from work coming up. I doubt I'll do anything with it.

[Haibel]

I'm probably going to skip on it to begin with as I've never done Linux before. Do you think it will have a lot more graphical options than what Windows offers us?

It will at best, be 75% percent of what your gonna get with a windows machine. In a beta stage that's being generous.

[Eekiki]

I have high hopes for it, but my knowledge of Linux is user-level at best. I might fire up an instance of it in a VM just to see what it looks like, though.

Everything hashes on whether or not Valve can get NVidia and AMD to give it good driver support.

[Kule]

Say goodbye to the DX11 version of FFXIV if you decide to use SteamOS on your gaming PC. SteamOS will use a modded version of OpenGL.

Everything hashes on whether or not Valve can get NVidia and AMD to give it good driver support.

Nvidia has been working with valve for a while now, there were lots of stories popping up when the steambox was just a rumour.

"According to Mark Smith, Nvidia's senior technical evangelist, Nvidia engineers have been "embedded at Valve" to assist the company's development of SteamOS. Their work includes improving OpenGL performance, and optimizing overall performance for Nvidia graphics cards. Nvidia also helped Valve to port the Source engine to Linux and reduce input lag in SteamOS."

[whilke]

The SteamOS is releasing tomorrow. Is anyone going to try it out?

http://www.videogamer.com/news/steam..._tomorrow.html



I wonder what it has for us gamers? I currently have Windows 8.1 installed, and I don't want to wipe what I currently have just to try this out. However, I am probably going to wait a good while to see how this new OS goes. I wonder how FFXIV: ARR would run on it?

ARR doesn't run on this. It's a Linux based OS, and ARR is Windows only at the moment. Not sure if anyone has tried getting ARR to run under Wine in Linux.

[cotti]

Something to keep in mind is that it's Linux based so any hope to make FFXIV work you would need to use Wine. I don't know the status of the Wine project is, if it's working or not.

I didn't get how you post the link with the exact information you say you're not aware of.

Well, it's just how it's informed there. Works, but launcher is a hassle and there are a couple of glitches.