SteamOS is holding back the Linux community. SteamOS is still based on Debian 8 (Jessie). Steam software often clashes with existing libraries of a current system. When I benchmarked Steam games, they delivered only 65% of the Windows performance figures when run on Linux.

I am thankful that SteamOS is nothing more than a lab experiment. If that became popular, Valve will not pay any attention to us, regular Linux users.