Hertog SteamOS is the ultimate gaming operating system
Winter Jo 
❄️@hertog this but real
@ShadowJonathan I am serious
imagine a world where gamers install SteamOS instead of windows for the same reasons that they install things like OperaGX
this power can be used for our good
imagine a world where gamers install SteamOS instead of windows for the same reasons that they install things like OperaGX
this power can be used for our good
@hertog yesssssss
i want steamOS to be real, and people to install it to "maximise their gaming potential" or the likes, lmao
just wait until you get bootleg branded steamOS installations, heh
mountaindew-styled SteamOS
@hertog just wait until you get the youtube videos of "you can get TWENTY PERCENT MORE FPS in CSGO if you INSTALL STEAMOS!!!"
@ShadowJonathan I want this and I am 100% serious
I am not joking when I say if valve does something like this I will genuinly say the future as a whole would look allot brighter for me
I am not joking when I say if valve does something like this I will genuinly say the future as a whole would look allot brighter for me
@hertog if valve can wrestle NVIDIA to play nice with drivers, and give a consistent and good experience on many major operating systems, it would genuinely break the mold of linux-based desktop gaming having a horrid experience with those cards
it would finally pressure NVIDIA to take linux serious, and break windows' hold over gaming
developers might target linux to eek out even more performance out of their games, or at some point, maybe even forego windows entirely, to "focus all their efforts on the best experience for our development budget"
@hertog the cries of "windows version when?" a-la "mac version when?", but becoming less as developing for steamOS becomes genuinely more easier to do for developers over time, and installing it becomes more accessible
Luna Lactea@ShadowJonathan @hertog I would worry about Valve having some special thing on SteamOS that other Linux operating systems don't have that causes games to break on them.
@ShadowJonathan I can see that happening yeah
usually I'm hesitant to say things like that but if with the help of valve linux becomes a platform large enough to be taking serious by people other than developers or geeks I think this will happen
and those drivers will help with that
usually I'm hesitant to say things like that but if with the help of valve linux becomes a platform large enough to be taking serious by people other than developers or geeks I think this will happen
and those drivers will help with that
@hertog the good thing about this is that this will mean that only valve needs to spearhead those drivers, and then it can trickle down to the rest of the linux ecosystem, but there needs to be a strong figurehead to initiate it, and valve is very much that, even if that take their own time
__Miguel_@ShadowJonathan @hertog Luckily, NVIDIA has been making progress in that department.
After they finally realized they were NOT gaining any traction on Linux by trying to do things against the flow, they've been working towards making their drivers actually work properly with Linux and Wayland in particular. Not to mention their first-party open source driver is, iirc, almost on par with the proprietary one when it comes to performance (on the few cards it can work, that is).
We're getting there! Not at an ideal pace, probably, but it's not stagnant either, and IMO that's a good thing.
@nanianmichaels @hertog and then steamOS can work with this by choosing which driver to download for each detected card, and valve can streamline / refine this process based on feedback, making it even better
idk, i wanna have hope for gaming again, since its been quite limbo like this for a while
Yes, PLEASE! My gaming machine needs this desperately, I want to move away from Windows. Plus making Windows work without a screen attached is a pain (I'm running Moonlight).
And my VR rig also needs it, because right now I can't enter VR without a monitor and a mouse.
@nanianmichaels @hertog if valve makes VR work flawlessly on linux, they will have my soul
@ShadowJonathan @hertog Wait, I thought it already did, at least for the few headsets actually supported by Linux...
hazel@ShadowJonathan @hertog gamers when they realize linux runs their favorite game better than an operating system that runs 5 layers of spyware and automatic updates in the background
MOVED TO @@ShadowJonathan @hertog ironically cs2 (and csgo before it) run like dogshit on linux lol
and dota2
and deadlock from what ive heard
valve native ports are just Bad
and dota2
and deadlock from what ive heard
valve native ports are just Bad