Countdown's over, new "SteamOS".

[IkeTheGeneric]

Here's a link

"Steam is coming to a new operating system! As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines."

An operating system sounds pretty cool, certainly wasn't what I was expecting. It's promised to be free, too.

Definitely something to check out :o

[Ad Bot]

[pefu19]

oh no please no
WHERE'S SPOTIFY
WHERE'S MY WEB BROWSER
WHERE'S BLOCKLAND??!?!?!?!?!?!

[e-maxx]

oh no please no

what is wrong with it?

[dkamm65]

So, Valve just made their own flavor of Linux.

[BuildaBox]

Wooooaaaaah

[Bisjac]

so they say its good for the computer that you have sitting at the tv.
but how does it do non game wise? i mean is it worth being a main OS?

when i hear linux. i instantly remember every linux help topic ever on the internet, and all the pain in the ass configuring everyone is doing day by day.

steam may have fixed it for gaming once and for all, but as a real OS i dunno yet x.x

[pefu19]

actually now that i've read the page i'll virtualbox it when it comes out :D

[pefu19]

but how does it do non game wise? i mean is it worth being a main OS?

Ofc not, it's just gonna be a huge-as-forget steam client, that runs games and some other stuff, imagine microsoft office, or school stuff
Imagine running this on a computer @ work
lmao

[Bisjac]

big picture makes games look a little nicer on the tv. as apposed to how using the tv as a monitor normally is just a joke.

but i cant imagine blockland ever everrrrr looking good on a tv :(
bl has notorious aliasing. or at least its way more noticeable then most games using the simple bricks.
only a computer monitor could hide it (with gpu settings)
no 1080p tv can do it.

[Marcem]

big picture makes games look a little nicer on the tv. as apposed to how using the tv as a monitor normally is just a joke.

but i cant imagine blockland ever everrrrr looking good on a tv :(
bl has notorious aliasing. or at least its way more noticeable then most games using the simple bricks.
only a computer monitor could hide it (with gpu settings)
no 1080p tv can do it.

You don't know what a TV does, do you?  A GPU can connect to (and provide the same settings for) a TV just as it does to a monitor.  I don't know how you got the notion that TVs are some sort of magic.

I doubt this OS is meant for use on regular PCs.  I bet that it's just designed to start in Big Picture Steam and has no other interface.  That's why they're advertising media and streaming features.

[Bisjac]

You don't know what a TV does, do you?  A GPU can connect to (and provide the same settings for) a TV just as it does to a monitor.  I don't know how you got the notion that TVs are some sort of magic.

a tv is not anywhere near the same as a monitor. not by a longshot.
those same settings are lost on a tv. like anti-aliasing. a tv's 1080 is a STRICT 1080. while a monitor actually has way way way more pixels. its only a computers overlay resolution that sets to 1080

or have you never noticed why you can barely read text on a game when you plug into a tv... all that washed out stufftiness.
big picture just hack-fixes this by replacing the text with lower resolution, higher sized ones.

[Marcem]

a tv is not anywhere near the same as a monitor. not by a longshot.
those same settings are lost on a tv. like anti-aliasing. a tv's 1080 is a STRICT 1080. while a monitor actually has way way way more pixels. its only a computers overlay resolution that sets to 1080

or have you never noticed why you can barely read text on a game when you plug into a tv... all that washed out stufftiness.
big picture just hack-fixes this by replacing the text with lower resolution, higher sized ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p
1080p is 1080p, no matter where you go.  1920x1080.  Overlay resolution isn't a real term, I have no clue where you got that from.  The reason a TV looks different from a monitor (also why there's more delay) is because the TV does some post-processing (not to be confused with GPU shaders) to make TV shows look better, many TVs have a "game mode" to turn this off.  Also tvs have much better scaling.  Anti-aliasing is done on the GPU, then sent to a tv or monitor.  You have no clue what you're talking about.

[dkamm65]

Not to mention HDTVs are generally larger in terms of screen size, so 1080p is stretched to stuff and looks blurry.

[Muzzles56]

so this is just a different version of linux?
pass

[Bisjac]

maybe. but no tv on earth has ever looked as good as a monitor. ever. thats a promise.
its not a settings issue. the tv just cant display games as nicely.

steam big picture improves this. but if it truly wasnt an issue. big picture and steamOS wouldn't even need to exist would they. we have always been capable of using the tv as a monitor.