Valve announces SteamOS for your living room.

By BatRastered — September 23, 2013
Tags: news pc steam valve

Having released Big Picture mode earlier, now the software maker wants to move you off windows entirely for gaming.

Now you can build a machine to play the Steam games of the future without having to have a full blown windows installation (not to mention it's free).

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.

Of course, most games don't run on Linux, so Valve has some work to do convincing partners to make their games compatible. Probably by some sort of dev kit? More info is coming later this week, this is the first of three announcements scheduled throughout the week. See the countdown here. Could be bad news for Microsoft with all those Win8 haters out there... gaming being one of the main things that keeps people on Windows.

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