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23 Sep 2013 17:38 #32888 by Dreyvas
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Linux-based, streamlined, designed for living rooms. Thoughts?

store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

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23 Sep 2013 17:51 #32889 by Arxon
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gizmodo.com/steams-got-its-own-operating-system-now-1371883607

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25 Sep 2013 17:18 #32943 by Dreyvas
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store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/

Definitely getting in on this if possible. :)

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25 Sep 2013 22:24 #32949 by Deb0
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My question, why not just hook up your gaming PC to a large screen TV and use the Big Screen functionality already? Streaming is never going to be as good and playing from the source. This actually makes no sense to me.

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25 Sep 2013 22:32 #32950 by Dreyvas
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mem0man wrote: My question, why not just hook up your gaming PC to a large screen TV and use the Big Screen functionality already? Streaming is never going to be as good and playing from the source. This actually makes no sense to me.


Well, a few things. Not everyone has their gaming rig in the same room as their big TV(s). Also, SteamOS isn't just for streaming, it will be able to play games natively as well.

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25 Sep 2013 23:20 #32951 by Deb0
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On a much less powerful machine. That will probably cost more then the cable to connect you main PC to your livingroom tv.

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25 Sep 2013 23:26 #32952 by garfi3ld
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As someone who uses an HTPC already I'm kind of curious what benefits I would gain moving from windows with my steam big picture mode to this. Along with that, if I were to install this OS what would I be loosing. Would I still be able to play music and video files that are on my network? I would be all about this if it integrated what I do already with increased steam functionality but if I would still have to run a second PC as my HTPC I doubt I would end up doing, as much as I would want to support it.


Please keep in mind I have been so busy that I really know nothing about it all. Please educate me
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25 Sep 2013 23:46 #32953 by Dreyvas
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mem0man wrote: On a much less powerful machine. That will probably cost more then the cable to connect you main PC to your livingroom tv.


Not everyone has the capability to just run a cable, this is heavily dependent on your layout. This is coming from someone that DOES run HDMI from my computer to my living room TV, heh.

Wes, I don't think anyone really knows a lot about it yet. It's Linux-based, I would assume a Debian distro. You'll likely be able to maintain all your HTPC capabilities. I know that's definitely something I'd be very interested in as well, especially in the future when my living situation might not allow me to easily connect my gaming rig to my big TV.

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26 Sep 2013 00:04 #32954 by Wooderson
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I personally feel this is not directed at highend hardware enthusiast. Most of the LanOC community falls into this category. So maybe its not for us as much as an gateway to bring the mid-twentys something and up console gamers to what I consider to be a more mature gaming platform. Wow I sound so old.
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26 Sep 2013 02:18 #32955 by Arxon
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Or you could just dual boot the htpc. when you want to game boot up steamos and for movie time the htpc os.

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26 Sep 2013 02:26 #32956 by garfi3ld
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If that's the case I would just run windows and do both :p

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26 Sep 2013 03:53 #32958 by Dreyvas
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garfi3ld wrote: If that's the case I would just run windows and do both :p

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If the game streaming works properly, you'd be able to stream stuff with SteamOS that you probably wouldn't be able to touch with Windows otherwise.

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26 Sep 2013 04:28 #32959 by garfi3ld
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I agree, especially if you are using something a little more lower end
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26 Sep 2013 21:24 #32964 by L0rdG1gabyt3
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At first i thought.. Meh... but now, Im more like hrm... Perhaps when it launches, ill be more like oh... and then if it goes well, then ill be like I see, but if its bad then ill be like oh well.
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