I have a huge problem with Steam in general. It's nothing against Valve and nothing against the games on Steam store, but hear me out.<p>Lets say you buy a game on the Steam store. Now lets say that game is so bug-ridden that you can't play it. It's so bad that you can't even run the game. You check online and it's such a big problem that the CTO has publicly apologized. You contact Steam support to ask for a refund. They tell you to forget it, so you contact the publisher. You explain that you have liked their games forever but this game is not playable. You want your money back. The publisher will tell you that you need to get a refund from the retailer you purchased the game from. It's out of their control because they don't have your money.<p>You contact Steam again, they tell you that they will issue no refund. You threaten to file a charge back from your credit card company. Steam says that they will disable further purchases from the Steam Store if you do so. They actually state that they will not let you purchase any more games from them if you protect yourself as any consumer should be allowed to.<p>Somehow, I just can't imagine doing business with them anymore.
I'd rather just go to the official site, myself.<p><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown" rel="nofollow">http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown</a>
A link explaining what SteamOS actually is might come in handy:<p><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/" rel="nofollow">http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/</a>
SteamOS FAQ<p><pre><code> Please use http://repo.steampowered.com[2] for downloading
repo.steampowered.com goes through the CDN and will spread the load. The steamstatic link people are passing around is not behind a CDN.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814395787298909/[3]
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For those using the unofficial torrent to download, can verify it with official MD5 or SHA512.
I'm pretty excited to see, at least from the steam FAQ, this is going to be a pretty straight forward layer on top of Debian with some back ported changes. I've seen so many crazy rumors about completely custom audio stacks, replacements for X and who knows what else. This is assuming the vague mention of an "updated graphics stack" doesn't mean anything crazy...
Does anyone have a torrent link? The installer link is down for me.<p>Edit:
Here is an unnoficial torrent magnet link:
<a href="http://mgnet.me/foUDd" rel="nofollow">http://mgnet.me/foUDd</a>
Can anyone please explain to me how this is supposed to work with the majority of games out there that happen to be only for Windows? Short of a handful of indie games, what exactly are you supposed to play with this?<p>Many major AAA titles have performance issues on Windows these days, and that's with nVidia and AMD doing their best to optimize their drivers, so please don't try to convince me that you can run the latest Assassin's Creed through Wine or something.
What I'm interested in is the streaming portion. Imagine a setup where a VMware server with a gaming VM streaming to a RaspberryPi in the family room or Mac.
Can somebody post screenshots if they got it running?
I am mostly interested in design. Their release announcements were amazing so I am curious what they pulled off.
Does anyone know if this can be installed in VirtualBox? I'd like to try it, but I don't feel like setting up a new computer for it or dual booting.
installed SteamOS on my labtop. Essentially just Debian 7 Gnome (with special steam repository) plus Steam client and all necessary drivers (ie Nvidia) automatically installed. Easy automatic install...just extract SteamOS.zip to usb, boot usb with UEFI enabled, and will install to first disk (just make sure your first disk is unused, as the auto install will not prompt the user for anything). Went ahead and enabled all the debian repos (so can install any debian program, so can function as a desktop workstation or server). So now it is basically like I've had in the past with Debian 7 plus steam client. And of course only the steam linux games work, although you're one "sudo apt-get install wine" instruction away from running most windows programs...
I was hoping that it would have a "streaming only" mode, with much lower hardware requirements. I have a decent spec gaming machine in the study, and a low spec HTPC in the living room that I was hoping I could just stick Steam OS on and stream from the study machine.
>> There is a desktop environment. Gnome.<p>I'm in! I'll give it a try in a VM for a while. That's how I ended up moving home machines from Windows to Ubuntu years ago.<p>Thanks Debian, Gnome and Valve!<p>EDIT: DISREGARD. "Keep in mind that we are not affiliated with Valve!"<p>I guess I skipped past that at the top.
Hopefully they make the backported eglibc .deb packages available. I'm betting they'll have an updated version of the graphics driver and possibly mesa too.<p>On Debian this has been a headache for me, so I'm hoping they'll make these things available :)
They should include optical disk instructions (ISO-to-bootable-DVD), given that USB sticks are such an obvious security hazard.<p>(...I realize it's trivial to create an ISO image for DVD burning, but gee it'd be nice if that was a readility available option)
After install it didn't boot correctly on my Macbook Pro 7,1. Booted to grub but then black screen. Also note (as now stated in the official documentation) it wipes your hard drive for the initial install.
> Custom graphics compositor designed to provide a seamless transition between Steam, its games and the SteamOS system overlay<p>That is the exciting part to me. Anyone have any details? I'm about to go digging.