Hmmmm. as much as I wish Linux to succeed in gaming, after watching and reading through their material, its very difficult for me to believe in this product. Such a price for the specs.. no possibility to even run games like Tomb Rider 2013, Life is strange or Victor Vran. This console reminds me more of an Ouya... but maybe I am wrong and there is market for such kind of device. If this is so - then wish them all the luck.

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Amazing. Thank You to the Unity team. You are game changers!

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Quoting: Pangachat

Quoting: liju

Quoting: Pangachat(thanks god Victor Vran local coop incoming :D ).

Do You maybe have any more info on this? I was one of the ppl requesting local coop from devs and I know they have several times stated they are working on it, but it was soo long ago. No new info so far so I guessed they just resign from local coop for this game..

Local Co-Op is coming!
Community Announcements - Captain Hindsight
Greetings Hunters! Our latest update brings preparations for the long awaited Local Co-Op, which will be out in mid-September (no later than the 16th).

On Steam.

Sry for the off :P

Quoting: Mountain ManDeveloper is saying mid-September.

http://steamcommunity.com/games/345180/announcements/detail/981043976159858946 [External Link]

Oh my.. thank You for the off! Will play it sooo through with my wife then ]:->

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Quoting: HoriThe only way in which Steam Machines are better is convenience and comfort... They are easy to use and user-friendly (or at least they are supposed to be), and the kind of PC that I talked about previously requires technical knowledge and a lot of experience with that kind of stuff.

This. I have already too little time to even try a small part of Steam Linux library. And the SteamOS machine I have build is dedicated for gaming just like a console. I do not have any mouse or keyboard overthere. For other purposes I have normal Linux PCs or a Linux server. I believe this kind of setup is not that rare. I do not need to do any other stuff than pure entertainment on my Steam machine and for this SteamOS + Kodi is really doing its job already.

Quoting: HoriValve, please do something about this. Take care of your product. Don't waste your investments. Please don't rely on luck and don't make a gamble out of this.

Yes. I second You, but _maybe_ Gabe is smarter than both of us here? What if the quiet SteamOS development is planned. What if he is just waiting for the more AAA titles and most of the devs targeting Linux (with ease thanks to Vulkan) just in order not to tease M$ too much now? Imagine we have perfect SteamOS system today, with current library it would not convince windows users to move onto our side. Nevertheless once the game develompent is based on Vulkan api and so the amount of new games on Linux is on par with windows and/or consoles with even better performance? This is the goal and speeding up on SteamOS user experience may just not be the priority now.

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Just to add my 5 cents to this valuable discussion: I have few PCs @home. All of them except so called sofa/console PC runs standard linux distro (mostly Debian) and thats fine for work and education.
But for a gaming SteamOS is just great for us. I had experienced the black screen and reinstall need, but it just needed to plug the USB and point the drive with games (custom install) to get it back with the library waiting for me where it was left.
Ofc I would like to have Netflix and other goods in SteamOS directly, but Kodi does the trick as well. My son (who is 8 now) picks up steam controller and does not really see the difference (beside the games catalogue) from the WiiU if it comes about usage. He can choose the game, start it and play as he wants.
So I am positive and I will support SteamOS. Its fast, and its natural and main target Linux OS for the devs for game development.
There are too important reasons behind the Valves decision to start SteamOS to resign from it - believe me.
We just need to wait for the devs to switch to Vulkan developments for their projects and we will see more and more games coming like a mushrooms after the rain. SteamOS will have to catch up and the whole Valves point of starting it and convince engines builders and other devs to invest in supporting Linux should ensure us it will happen. Acting differently would be just surrending to M$.

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Quoting: Pangachat(thanks god Victor Vran local coop incoming :D ).

Do You maybe have any more info on this? I was one of the ppl requesting local coop from devs and I know they have several times stated they are working on it, but it was soo long ago. No new info so far so I guessed they just resign from local coop for this game..

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Once its released I believe (: Once its released I try it (; Got it with steam controller and also never installed due to missing Linux version. Looking forward though!

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Maybe PC for those devs is Pathetic Craziness... so they cannot say it about our platform ( ;

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I was hoping for this one to play on Linux. The athmosphere is just what I need ( :

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: lijuNow with M$ producing their ntfs, mssql, .net and so much more for our platform, its just so clear there is no other direction but to grow further and getting stronger.

Be wary of Microsoft's interest in Linux. Remember their "embrace and extend" strategy, which is really "search and destroy". They'd love nothing more than to shut the whole thing down.

You are right about their strategy, but I just think its not really workable for Linux and opensource anymore. Its got too big with support from much bigger powers than M$ alone. I think they are aware of this as well. For sure in server business. For desktop and gaming though... I am too puzzled myself to predict anything.

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