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[–] Forbin 0 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I've gotten a LOT of downvotes here in the past when I said nearly the exact same thing about SteamOS...I'm glad to finally see that folks are willing to call a spade a spade. SteamOS is garbage. It was birthed from Gabe Newell's meltdown over Microsoft's plans to compete with Steam. Folks should be honest about Valve--they're not really promoting FOSS. To the contrary, they are pioneers in DRM and closed-systems...and worse yet, they have a LONG history of being anti-consumer and doing really negative shit that impacts all PC gaming (e.g. creating a gambling industry, attempting to charge for mods, selling unfinished, buggy products as "early access," etc.)

At it's core, SteamOS was an attempt by Valve to maintain it's virtual monopoly in PC gaming by creating what is tantamount to a walled-garden of it's own. There was NEVER a reason for them to focus on creating their own distro instead of the broader Linux base. SteamOS literally boots into a storefront and does it's absolute best to keep people there. It has a lot more in common with Amazon's FireOS (a fork of Android) than it does with run-of-the-mill Linux distros....the real intention was to move PC gaming over to a platform where they didn't have real competition.

I'm all for gaming on Linux and I know that folks who use Linux were mostly fans of SteamOS because it brought more games over. Just don't delude yourselves that Valve has any noble intentions....if it did, it could have opted to allocate it's time and resources into better integrating the Steam client into the big distros instead of building it's own (shitty) storefront distro.

And don't get me started on a rant about Steam Machines....

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[–] bikergang_accountant 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I don't know why Linux old hat never try to introduce new Linux users to Free gaming. I installed Brutal Doom on my friends Mac (it was hell getting it done). He immediately put down Modern Warfare II.