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So, we finally have the answer to "But Gabe, how you gonna get all those games on the Linux?"
In-home Streaming
You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!
I have an unusused laptop. Assuming it's strong enough I could install SteamOS on it (it's already running Ubuntu), hook up my wireless 360 pads, plug it into HDMI on the living room TV and be good to go to play all my basement games upstairs?
Do I have to wait till next year for this? Because I'm ready now...
Oh - and yay for them finally adding family/kid controls, it's about time.
For those of us stuck at work and blocked from steam news/website/etc, how about some info/details.
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Thousands of games, millions of users. Everything you love about Steam.
Available soon as a free operating system designed for the TV and the living room.
Steam is coming to a new operating system
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.
Living room & Steam
Finally, you don’t have to give up your favorite games, your online friends, and all the Steam features you love just to play on the big screen. SteamOS, running on any living room machine, will provide access to the best games and user-generated content available.
Fast forward
In SteamOS, we have achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing, and we’re now targeting audio performance and reductions in input latency at the operating system level. Game developers are already taking advantage of these gains as they target SteamOS for their new releases.
Cooperating system
Steam is not a one-way content broadcast channel, it’s a collaborative many-to-many entertainment platform, in which each participant is a multiplier of the experience for everyone else. With SteamOS, “openness” means that the hardware industry can iterate in the living room at a much faster pace than they’ve been able to. Content creators can connect directly to their customers. Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want. Gamers are empowered to join in the creation of the games they love. SteamOS will continue to evolve, but will remain an environment designed to foster these kinds of innovation.
Four new Steam features focused on the living room.
Available soon in both SteamOS and the Steam client.
In-home Streaming
You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!
Music, TV, Movies
We’re working with many of the media services you know and love. Soon we will begin bringing them online, allowing you to access your favorite music and video with Steam and SteamOS.
Family Sharing
In the past, sharing Steam games with your family members was hard. Now you can share the games you love with the people you love. Family Sharing allows you to take turns playing one another’s games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud.
Family Options
The living-room is family territory. That’s great, but you don’t want to see your parents’ games in your library. Soon, families will have more control over what titles get seen by whom, and more features to allow everyone in the house to get the most out of their Steam libraries.
At the core of SteamOS is everything you already love about Steam.
All the games you love
Hundreds of great games are already running natively on SteamOS. Watch for announcements in the coming weeks about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014. Access the full Steam catalog of over nearly 3000 games and desktop software titles via in-home streaming.
Over 50 million friends
Steam users are what makes gaming on Steam fun. Meet new people, join game groups, form clans, chat in-game and dive into Game Hubs, the center of activity for all your favorite games.
Workshop
The creative energy of Steam users takes shape in the Workshop - your one-stop shop for the best add-ons available. Here you can create, discover, and download a nearly endless supply of top-quality user-created content.
A cross-platform cloud
Seamless content delivery, storage you don’t have to think about and automatic updates to everything. Switch machines and pick up your game where you left off, and don’t worry about saving your preferences. It’s all in the Steam Cloud.
Constantly evolving
Steam itself has been a constantly evolving service since its debut in 2003. SteamOS will continue to deliver not only valuable game updates directly from content makers, but also regular additions and new features to the OS itself.
Worldwide
Steam is in 185 countries and has been translated into 25 languages. As a truly global platform, Steam, and now SteamOS, brings entertainment to an audience without borders.
Downloadable soon. Free forever!
SteamOS will be available soon as a free download for users and as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers. Stay tuned in the coming days for more information.
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Mike Danger"Diane..."a place both wonderful and strangeRegistered Userregular
So, this is O
[O ] is presumably the Steambox or whatever (a box with SteamOS inside)
I'm unclear. What does this install onto? Your TV? Is it for SetTop boxes? Are games installed and run locally, or is it a streaming service type deal? What about non-steam games?
I can tell you right now I have no attachment to windows really. It's alllll about the video games for me on my PC. So if this is a PC Operating System as well, designed from the ground up to play video games (and actually gives me a performance increase), it sounds pretty neat, and is something I would certainly consider.
I wonder if the media services means they are working with Netflix to actually get it officially up on Linux?
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AbsalonLands of Always WinterRegistered Userregular
Liberating PC gaming entirely from Windows and the whole external/internal PC monolith foundation can only be a good thing. Take the usual PC budget, split it between a basic laptop for work and Office and a Steambox connected to a TV screen.
I'm unclear. What does this install onto? Your TV? Is it for SetTop boxes? Are games installed and run locally, or is it a streaming service type deal? What about non-steam games?
I can tell you right now I have no attachment to windows really. It's alllll about the video games for me on my PC. So if this is a PC Operating System as well, designed from the ground up to play video games (and actually gives me a performance increase), it sounds pretty neat, and is something I would certainly consider.
It's an OS so you install it to a computer. Seems you can install this to any old computer and have it up and running. The next announcement in 48 hours should tell us about the Steambox.
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CuvisTheConquerorThey always say "yee haw" but they never ask "haw yee?" Registered Userregular
If SteamOS can stream Netflix, it will replace Windows on my HTPC.
Watch for announcements in the coming weeks about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014.
Valve game announcements, or Valve moneyhatting devs to produce Linux ports?
Who knows. But a good AAA push is something that any new platform could use.
If they can somehow prove it's harder to pirate on SteamOS than Windows or cheaper to developer for than Windows in some way you might not have to work very hard to do this. It'll be interesting to see if this can somehow bring EA back on board a bit.
I think the important news from this announcement is that I now have 10 Antimatter COndensers in Cookie Clicker and I hate the goose who linked that game. Also something something steamOS.
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Sir CarcassI have been shown the end of my worldRound Rock, TXRegistered Userregular
Liberating PC gaming entirely from Windows and the whole external/internal PC monolith foundation can only be a good thing. Take the usual PC budget, split it between a basic laptop for work and Office and a Steambox connected to a TV screen.
The problem for me is I find anything but a desk to be incredibly uncomfortable with KBAM which is my preferred input for video games (outside maybe action and sports games).
What does SteamOS offer for someone in a studio apartment with an HTPC (of gaming quality) already hooked up to the TV?
Well the OS is open so they tell you right there.
Steam is not a one-way content broadcast channel, it’s a collaborative many-to-many entertainment platform, in which each participant is a multiplier of the experience for everyone else. With SteamOS, “openness” means that the hardware industry can iterate in the living room at a much faster pace than they’ve been able to. Content creators can connect directly to their customers. Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want. Gamers are empowered to join in the creation of the games they love. SteamOS will continue to evolve, but will remain an environment designed to foster these kinds of innovation.
Watch for announcements in the coming weeks about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014.
Valve game announcements, or Valve moneyhatting devs to produce Linux ports?
Who knows. But a good AAA push is something that any new platform could use.
If they can somehow prove it's harder to pirate on SteamOS than Windows or cheaper to developer for than Windows in some way you might not have to work very hard to do this. It'll be interesting to see if this can somehow bring EA back on board a bit.
"Coming soon from EA: ORIGIN(al), the new OS built By Gamers, For Gamers(tm)"
Wait, so can this announcment be of some use to someone who don't use his TV to play games? Do this means that Valve is developing new, Linux-based, gaming OS and will encourage developers to develop/port games on SteamOS?
Watch for announcements in the coming weeks about all the AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014.
Valve game announcements, or Valve moneyhatting devs to produce Linux ports?
Who knows. But a good AAA push is something that any new platform could use.
If they can somehow prove it's harder to pirate on SteamOS than Windows or cheaper to developer for than Windows in some way you might not have to work very hard to do this. It'll be interesting to see if this can somehow bring EA back on board a bit.
"Coming soon from EA: ORIGIN(al), the new OS built By Gamers, For Gamers(tm)"
"Due to how the ORIGIN(al) box has to connect to EA servers at all times to provide the best possible user experience, included in the console box is a tiny nuclear reactor so that it never has to worry about loss of power disrupting connections."
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I immediately redeemed it when it was added to the latest humble bundle and had a fun romp with it.
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The sun got a little bigger.
*edit* Oh, you can click the first circle. STEAMOS
God damn
Steam ID: 76561198021298113
Origin ID: SR71C_Blackbird
Pins!
Answer: We're not.
I have an unusused laptop. Assuming it's strong enough I could install SteamOS on it (it's already running Ubuntu), hook up my wireless 360 pads, plug it into HDMI on the living room TV and be good to go to play all my basement games upstairs?
Do I have to wait till next year for this? Because I'm ready now...
Oh - and yay for them finally adding family/kid controls, it's about time.
I guess streaming is one way to get around the "what about games that don't work on Linux" issue.
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Here's a full, probably ugly text dump:
[O ] is presumably the Steambox or whatever (a box with SteamOS inside)
What's O+O?
I don't see why they would.
Steambox with SteamOS on it.
I can tell you right now I have no attachment to windows really. It's alllll about the video games for me on my PC. So if this is a PC Operating System as well, designed from the ground up to play video games (and actually gives me a performance increase), it sounds pretty neat, and is something I would certainly consider.
Valve game announcements, or Valve moneyhatting devs to produce Linux ports?
Nah. What of it? That wouldn't warrant a reveal.
Steam ID: 76561198021298113
Origin ID: SR71C_Blackbird
Who knows. But a good AAA push is something that any new platform could use.
It's an OS so you install it to a computer. Seems you can install this to any old computer and have it up and running. The next announcement in 48 hours should tell us about the Steambox.
If they can somehow prove it's harder to pirate on SteamOS than Windows or cheaper to developer for than Windows in some way you might not have to work very hard to do this. It'll be interesting to see if this can somehow bring EA back on board a bit.
probably netflix, hulu and twitch at the very least
Possibly better performance for games that support it natively.
The problem for me is I find anything but a desk to be incredibly uncomfortable with KBAM which is my preferred input for video games (outside maybe action and sports games).
Well the OS is open so they tell you right there.
"Coming soon from EA: ORIGIN(al), the new OS built By Gamers, For Gamers(tm)"
"Due to how the ORIGIN(al) box has to connect to EA servers at all times to provide the best possible user experience, included in the console box is a tiny nuclear reactor so that it never has to worry about loss of power disrupting connections."
COME FORTH, AMATERASU! - Switch Friend Code SW-5465-2458-5696 - Twitch