YES! YES! YES! Best news ever!

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceHopefully the SteamOS version will work on other Linux distros as well.

If they follow Valve instructions and use the Steam Runtime, it should run on most distros. And since Steam OS is based on Debian, it should at least run without issues on Debian and Ubuntu.

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Quoting: FraaarghAny due date ?

The developers on Project Cars don't really care about Linux, they only care about Steam OS which will come out on November, they have plenty of time.

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Quoting: GuestI don't see your bug I can't see any gap

I think he's talking about the bottom right blue lights.

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Quoting: adolsonApparently Valve felt the threat, so it must be real, but I mean... If I'm Microsoft, how do I go about getting the millions of Steam users to leave their dozens/hundreds/thousands of games - not to mention dollars and time invested - in their Steam accounts behind and move to whatever Microsoft's solution is? If Microsoft is to make this kind of a move, they'd better do it fast, before Valve has their own platform out on the market that customers see as an easy jump-to point.

Steam users like you and me won't stop using it, but Microsoft can create a store like the Google Play store, you can install software not on the store but you have to go check a parameter somewhere to do that, then they can make it so that only software bought on the store appear on the menus, then they can mark the Steam client as a potential threat to the user, then they can use their power to force publisher to only publish new game on the Microsoft store (they would have to if they want to use the newer versions of DX), ... And this way most of Valve user database can be lost in a few years, less games would be published on it and it would die slowly.

Quoting: sarmadValve doesn't only have threat from Microsoft. They also have threat from Origin and other similar services.

If Origin replace Steam, it would be right, it would be that they managed to become better than Steam. I doubt Microsoft will even consider that approach.

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Quoting: MaelraneBUT: Valve isn't doing this because they see Linux as the great platform it is, they do all this, because they wanted to break free from Microsoft when the rumors about a (n even more) walled garden aka MS Store first appeared.

Microsoft can still potentially kill Valve business easily (and most probably will eventually try), this hasn't change at all. Windows is already moving from a product oriented business to a service oriented business, which means that services like Steam will be competitors that need to be put down and imagine how easy that would be for Microsoft.

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Quoting: ricki42Edit: I did some searching, and it might be more of an issue with engine plugins. The SteamVR plugins for Unity and Unreal currently don't support Linux (for Unity: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/# [External Link]!/content/32647).

I did some research too and it seems that all the libraries provided by Valve are multi-platform Win/OSX/Linux, so one thing for sure it is not Valve's fault.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Jeff Gattis did said something like "depending on some factors the HTC Vive might initially only work on Windows[...]" and that the journalist turned it in a way to make it looks like he didn't care about Linux at all to make it more dramatic.

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Quoting: CybaCowboyYou can replace a graphics card in a laptop - with difficulty... How is this any different?

Actually if you watch this (starting at 3:00) :
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You'll understand that it is not a standard motherboard, nor it is a standard gpu.

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Seriously I don't get why AMD users get mad, they know their driver is bad and now that it become even more public knowledge AMD will have to do something about it. Their driver is probably going to become better and fast, they should all be happy about it. Unless they think AMD isn't going to do anything, in that case I don't understand why they still have an AMD card.

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In a few weeks, the Steam sales will begin, there will be hundred of thousand of people going trough their website looking for a way to spend their money and they will all see a big ad for Steam hardware. You can be sure that if all of the preorder are not taken by then, after the first day they will be. Last year, sales began June 19th, be sure to get what you want before that.

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