Day One Impressions of SteamOS

By guano — December 17, 2013
Tags: akatan00ki blog pc-gaming steamos

The woes of the day one SteamOS beta. I lived through the pain so you don't have to!

smh. SteamOS beta... Ya know, the instructions were written by an engineer for this beta... Need I say more? After some issues that I had to do some digging to resolve, I got this thing up and running. I braved this so you can wait until it's ready... and that's what I suggest you do! WARNING: There is no third party support for hardware and/or peripherals of any kind beyond the most basic PC components! YMMV based on your configuration!

Here is a video walkthrough I found from PCPer, after I suffered through the process!!!

Comments

SteamOS seems to be Valve's "Plan B" to me in the case that Windows turns into another Walled Garden, iOS style as had been hinted at by the presence of the windows app store and MS leadership pushing to be a "devices" company instead of software. As long as you are allowed to run non-app store application on Windows, I don't think this is needed, but it's a better safe than sorry approach from
Valve.

The $100 (or less) for Windows is a good value as long as content creators are still putting arbitrary restrictions on non-desktop devices. Why can I watch a show on my desktop but not my xbox on hulu? They're basically the same thing, but that OS string from the user agent still matters to them for some reason. I still come across the occasional you tube vid that says "not available on mobile". How will hulu/youtube/networks/etc treat the Steam OS? As a desktop or as a "device" that needs a different license?

Dec 18, 2013 by BatRastered

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Day One Impressions of SteamOS

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