The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

Cassidy · Dec 11, 2013

You are not seeing the core of the meaning of "hipster" because it is hollow. Something being "hipster" is a result of trending, astroturfing in social networks and the right words("SALES!"), rather than an objective aspect, but ultimately it involves deceit. That several lame clones of 16-bit platformers, one-trick ponies and LEGO Larping simulators are oftenly associated with it is mere coincidence. Games so Alpha they barely have gameplay getting hot sales are as hipster as Braid.

Metro · Dec 12, 2013

GabeN deliver us from BillG.

Azalin · Dec 14, 2013

StteamOs is now live

Long Live GabeN

http://steamdb.info/blog/35/
http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

Morgoth · Dec 14, 2013

WARNING: Both installation methods will erase all content on the target computer

What, I can't choose a partition for install?

Metro · Dec 14, 2013

You either fully commit or you GTFO.

Cassidy · Dec 14, 2013

Morgoth said:
WARNING: Both installation methods will erase all content on the target computer

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What, I can't choose a partition for install?

+50% chance of proprietary distro and Steam made intentionally incompatible with any other Linux system/distro in monopoly creation attempt

Metro · Dec 14, 2013

You say that as if it's a bad thing.

Cassidy · Dec 14, 2013

Metro said:
You say that as if it's a bad thing.

Some mentally retarded cretins despise the concept of Free Software. People with at least two-digit IQ shouldn't.

Metro · Dec 14, 2013

Yes but how i mine 4 fish?

Cowboy Moment · Dec 14, 2013

Cassidy said:
Morgoth said:

WARNING: Both installation methods will erase all content on the target computer

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What, I can't choose a partition for install?

Click to expand...

+50% chance of proprietary distro and Steam made intentionally incompatible with any other Linux system/distro in monopoly creation attempt

Oh come on, don't be silly. It basically has no real installer, and comes as a 500GB disk image you can clone, just like what OEMs use for laptops, it even has a fucking recovery partition built in. It's basically Debian with a realtime preemptible kernel and a custom compositor. What would be the point of making it incompatible with other distros anyway? Valve doesn't give a shit whether you run SteamOS or Steam for Linux on Ubuntu, they earn their money on software sales. They're not really in the business of continuously shooting themselves in the foot like Microsoft.

Metro · Dec 14, 2013

Logic has no place in Cassidy's cliched anti-corporate rants.

tuluse · Dec 14, 2013

Nvidia only locks me out of testing this. Shame.

Metro · Dec 14, 2013

I don't understand that especially since they said some of the Steam boxes they were shipping out included AMD cards.

Cowboy Moment · Dec 14, 2013

It's not really NVIDIA only I think, more like NVIDIA drivers have better OpenGL performance, so by saying "AMD and Intel support being worked on", they're preempting a bunch of idiots with AMD cards complaining about poor game performance (although I have no idea why not Intel, since their Linux drivers are supposed to be very good). Their public package list has AMD's proprietary drivers, so I see no reason why you wouldn't be able to install the OS and then fglrx.

IDtenT · Dec 15, 2013

Where is the source code? Oh right, we're not going to get it.

IDtenT · Dec 15, 2013

Rohit_N said:
You mean here?

http://repo.steampowered.com/steamos/

Okay, bro. If you're so smart then compile it for us.

Morgoth · Dec 15, 2013

Metro said:
You either fully commit or you GTFO.

This is not what the benelovent Emperor promised us.

Either way, will probably have to get a new HDD and along with it a SSD anyway in the future. Still, the Emperor should allow us to have a bit diversity on our hard drives.

Dexter · Dec 15, 2013

Morgoth said:
Metro said:

You either fully commit or you GTFO.

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This is not what the benelovent Emperor promised us.

Either way, will probably have to get a new HDD and along with it a SSD anyway in the future. Still, the Emperor should allow us to have a bit diversity on our hard drives.

It's a Beta restriction, they are aware of the problem.

Azalin · Dec 15, 2013

Morgoth said:
Metro said:

You either fully commit or you GTFO.

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This is not what the benelovent Emperor promised us.

Either way, will probably have to get a new HDD and along with it a SSD anyway in the future. Still, the Emperor should allow us to have a bit diversity on our hard drives.