Good article, but awful modal ads on that site.
Anyway, is anyone here using steamos or a steambox? Valve made a lot of noise about Linux but I haven't seen many people use it for gaming yet.
Anyway, is anyone here using steamos or a steambox? Valve made a lot of noise about Linux but I haven't seen many people use it for gaming yet.
That said, Valve's "focus" on Linux does seem to have seen an increase in what games are available on Linux. Or possibly that is more modern dev environments supporting Linux/iOS/Android out of the box? Not sure.
If Linux ran all the games that Windows did, and just as well, I'd love to switch over. But until then, it's not really a good option for me.
However, I will say that I love being able to stream games to my Steam Link box in the living room (from the other end of the house) and that box came out at the same time that Steam OS was announced. I don't know how connected they are, but I suspect it's got Linux on it. It can't run games directly, though.
Of course, the other big one is Linux support in games. I have a 600-game library and only a proportion of those are Linux compatible (250-ish, to varying levels of success).