Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
Maybe you should take it up with valve then? Valve are the ones that wanted to cut costs by using linux so the problem is with them, not square.
I don't think cutting the costs is the reason for Valve using SteamOS. It's more related to the hardware and integration, and having more control over which processes run on the console. Windows runs a lot of tasks and background processes you don't have control of and could drain your battery if those processes fire at a bad time.

If Microsoft launches a Windows version optimized for handheld devices that is not based on ARM maybe it would be a prefered option for Valve, but for now that's what they have and that's what they work with.