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Quoting: dubigrasuthere's not much you can ask from it. It already does its job.

Just take a look at other gaming devices for the living room like PS or Xbox. These are multimedia machines with a bunch of video streaming clients. That is state of the art and something you can ask for.

I'm not talking about the Steam Machines, but about the SteamOS as a distro.
Whatever PS/Xbox comparable feature you want from the Steam Machines, they'll have to be integrated available first in the Steam Client, and then SteamOS will have them as well.
Like I said, SteamOS is only designed to run the Steam Client.

Edit: OK, "integrated" was a bad choice of words. This is likely to be interpreted as "part of" the Steam Client, like Broadcasting and Streaming are right now. Definitely not that, but just available for installation.

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I think many of you are disappointed in SteamOS status because you are actually disappointed by the Steam Machines.
But remember that the purpose of the SteamOS in itself (as a distro) is only to run the Steam Client, which it does fine. Other than a newer Mesa for AMD users (and maybe more frequent updates) there's not much you can ask from it. It already does its job.

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After the latest update I was able to start the game, but I still see that weird water bug.

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Oh god, not the AMD vs NV again...

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Quoting: GuestMaybe while they're working on Linux drivers, they could add Surround support so that I can game on three monitors.

Ask Jake about it, he routinely plays on triple screen, ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujf-g0JGE2I [External Link]

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There's a big (3.3 GB) update right now for Arma 3, wonder what it is...

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@g000h
I do my best to support Linux gaming, even by buying titles that I have no desire to play whatsoever (such as strategy titles from Feral) and I'd say that 99% of my gaming is done on Linux, with Linux games.
But please don't ask me to retreat in some Linux iron fortress shunning away all the good games out there just because they have no Linux ports.
If there is a wonderful/awesome game that I desire badly to play, I will play it whatever the platform is on. I am a Linux user yes, but I'm also a gamer and I don't want to feel guilty about that.

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Quoting: GuestThe benchmark values are really looking bad.
But if you take a look at the video comparision here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojKC5kXopCs [External Link]

it looks much better for Linux, roughly 10% difference.
Note sure why the results differ that much.

Different hardware/system, and likely different track used for benchmark. My guess is Liam used the default Melbourne track, while in video is the Silverstone one.

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I imagine what it would be like to be in Feral's shoes sometime and read some of these posts...

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While I do appreciate the enhanced textures I am still not sold on the new aesthetic that the BFG Edition creates, with the darker lighting from the original game in particular looking far better than the brighter world included with the BFG Edtion. Further many of the game features themselves have been altered or badly cut resulting in a game that is far less interesting to play.

Can you elaborate a bit on that?
Thanks

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