Let's not over dramatize this "SteamOS is dead/not working" and so on.
It does work and is still updated and worked on.
You have a purchased/supported Steam Machine where SteamOS broke? That shouldn't happen, but if it does report the bug to Valve, you'll be doing it for the Linux gaming benefit in general, not only for SteamOS. We will all profit (regardless of what distro we love) if Steam Machines are rock solid.
If you have a custom/unsupported SteamOS installation, well, congratulations for your curiosity and thank Valve for making it possible instead of locking SteamOS to Steam Machines.
(how awesome would it be to have custom/unsupported Orbis installation?)
You can still be a sport and report the bugs but yeah, your hardware or your configuration choices might be unsupported and SteamOS can break. No surprises here and no need for "SteamOS is dead" drama.

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Well, I think Valve is more interested in having SteamOS running on their sanctioned Steam Machines rather than the custom ones.
The reset option (like for current consoles) does work if the default installation method is used.

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One awesome port after another, Feral is on fire!
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Quoting: rea987How about framerate? TotalBiscuit was unable to run it 60 FPS with 2x Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 on Windows 7.

I saw the TB's video, not sure what his problem was, but I get around 70 FPS with a i7-4790K and a GTX 780 (1920x1080).
I do get some stutter ocasionally, but minimal. Totally playable:
View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: manero666*snip*

While all what you said is true, the basic problem for me is that WINE is a -theoretical- solution to make Windows games run in Linux. In practice...it doesn't work. At least not well. Look at the list of "platinum" quality games. It's short. Very short. And that's the only games that I consider to work reasonably well in Wine. Even the "gold" quality ones usually have huge issues. Yes, they might run. But not in a way that makes you feel happy with the experience. For example, Guild Wars 2 was marked as gold, but the game ran with 15-20 FPS, which is totally unplayable in practice. It also crashed -much- more often compared to running it in Windows. Star Trek Online (also tagged gold) needs literally 10-15 mins to even start and freezes lots as well. Really, if a game isn't on the Platinum list, there is no need to even try. And I am not even getting into the circumstance that barely any game just installs easily in Wine. Usually it involves a lot of fumbling with the configuration and lot of trial and error and a lot of frustration.

As I said above, I really respect the dedication and effort that went into WINE. I don't want to diss on what they accomplished. But for me, the solution to get Windows games to run isn't WINE and probably never will be. It's dual booting. And hoping that one day I will stop feeling the urge to play Windows games entirely.

Looks like you are terribly unlucky with Wine:)
I mean, I had the opposite experience with it, the norm for me is to have almost every game (dx9) working without a fuss, especially with the latest Wine releases. When I get one that doesn't I'm actually surprised.

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Looks like is getting closer:
https://steamdb.info/app/362890/history/ [External Link]

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Wishlisted.

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Looking good, really glad to see a sequel for this awesome game.
I noticed that banding but didn't bothered me.
One thing that I hope to see is functional gamepad support from day one. The first game it was a bit wonky in that regard initially.

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Quoting: dmantione...I just keep reading reports of games that run better on Wine than the Linux port... not something we should be happy with. IndirectX apparently has a lot of overhead involved, much more than other known translation layers..

That's something that I hear often too, but never seen it personally. I heard about VP's Witcher having a lower perf initially (which makes sense since it did had at that time lousy performance) and saw two reliable reports about Tomb Raider, but in all my time of testing various ports I never saw Wine performing better on my hardware (Tomb Raider included).
In my opinion ("even Wine performs better" ) generally is akin of a subjective statement that people like to throw to express their disappointment with certain ports, without actually testing in controlled conditions their affirmation.
Is still very possible to see this on certain hw/sw configs, but what I mean is hearsay statements about Wine doing better that ports is not a serious criteria to take in consideration.

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Quoting: ProfessorKaos64Compared to old videos, AVGN's play, and what I remember, widescreen and enhanced video options and resolutions make it look a fair bit nicer. The frogs and flies are super annoying, but at some point I will take the challenge and play it to completion. Too busy with Day of the Tentacle right now.

Well, my guess is that I'm gonna like it.
The frogs and mosquitoes/flies were some bizarre choices for enemies indeed, but other than that I quite enjoyed it so far.
I never played the original game and I'm unaffected by the stigma that the game had for so long.
I think that for a game like this (that was disliked for so long) it doesn't matter how improved might be now, is still gonna be disliked by original/first players. Hard to overcome an initial bad impression.
I can think of "Hydrophobia: Prophecy" for example, it was poorly received (for good reasons) and even with all the criticism addressed in a massive update the game never rebounded, its reception is still mixed on Steam (and is on sale with 0.99$ btw). I personally played the updated version (on PS3) and really enjoyed it, it is (imo) a good game but it will never be seen as such, is too late.
Same with Daikatana, too late for those who already hate it, but others might like it (if you're into this old style gaming).

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