From reading many discussions on the steam forums, It led me to conclude that SteamOS is more OEM oriented for the Steam Machines (consoles) than a full OS for users to install on there own, like we would do.

This is why so many of us still have lots of problems when installing SteamOS on their computers: we don't have the required hardware to make it work perfectly.

Valve probably concentrated their efforts on making SteamOS fully compatible with the offical Steam Machines that are going to be sold. They probably already reached their goal in that aspect and it could explain why SteamOS development is stopped, atm.

For desktop users, like us, Steam prefer to recommand debian based Linux (officialy Ubuntu) with Steam client.

These are just my conclusions and you may disagree.

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Quoting: FutureSutureOne of Batman's top villains is The Penguin...

That would be very nice and a kind of game Linux love has not seen yet.

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Doesn't matter... I'll buy whatever it is just to thank their great efforts on supporting Linux. :)

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If at least it can find the right ears...
Just need to express yourself on that discussion. Be it a "+1".
It'll bring it on top at every comments added.

Search for Linux Releases as a topic. You should find it in the Steam Universe group.

French... Great! I'm not the only one! :)

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Quoting: dubigrasuBut as (almost) always there is this lack of advertising for Linux people.
Yes, there is an announcement on their store page, but I don't see it anywhere else. ex: http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/ [External Link]

If a game has simultaneous Win/Linux release (ex: This War of Mine) that's fine. But if the game was already released for Win a while ago, tough chance.
If you go to Steam and narrow everything down to Linux and new releases you'll find Gettysburg on page 5.

Steam needs a page with "newly released for Linux" games regardless when they were released for other platforms.

(good thing we have this site and Steamdb)

Just posted a request for this on Steam forum.
Let's wait and see...

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Wow!

Just took a look at the full games' list published for MAC by Aspyr... If they could port all these games on Linux it would be awesome!

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Sure going to give it a try.

Am I far if I compare the look & feel to Skylanders?

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Can't wait for this game to be released on Linux...

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Just wait and see...

They wrote "can't promise" not something like "very unlikely".

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I hope so, but the actual flow of SteamOS updates is stopped...

Since the beggining of the project, when they release an update to Alchemist, they immediately start a new round on Alchemist-beta. Right now, it is stopped to Update 145 on Alchemist.

What does that mean? SteamOS is almost complete? What about the online video service that Valve promised (Netflix and the likes)?

And now developers that drops Linux support... It makes me wonder...

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