I really really want to know what they plugged into those PCIe slots... or any of the others, really. I'd love to see which of these ports remain on the production board and what, if anything, they (or the end-user) can do with them.

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Quoting: x_wingSmells like black & white but without some fun parts (no sacrifices feature? What a shame!)

I don't know about Black & White. I mean, no giant creature?
It sounds more like Populous to me.

In any case, I've been craving a good god sim. Will keep an eye on this. ;)

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Well, I'm late to the party here, but I'd love to see whether this turn-based game may make me forget that Banished is not getting a Linux release. ;)

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Feral could make my day a little better when Borderlands 1 finally gets a Linux port... having to start a cross-platform multiplayer session 2nd of the games instead of the first one makes not a lick of sense to me.

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Surviving Mars, please.

weeds@garden:~$ rm -rf /

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Strangely enough it complains about lacking dx9 when I try to run it. Shouldn't the snap install that?

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I deleted my account there when the news broke.

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And here I just did my yearly purging of my wishlist...

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To be entirely fair; I see no real use for SteamOS rather than having it on a Raspberry Pi 3 and hooked up to a living room TV. There's hardly a backend to speak of which can be used for all the other things people expect of their OSes. It's first-and-foremost a console OS rather than a desktop OS.

There have been no less than three updates to the Steam Client Beta this week alone, and I feel like Valve is focusing on the proposed new features they want to put in the Steam Client prior to maybe boosting SteamOS again, but again only for console-use.

It's often easier to just dump a random Debian-based distro on a desktop/laptop and then install the Steam Client so people can then also have access to Office suites and the like when they're not gaming. This is just something Valve cannot put all their resources to. There are already vast numbers of people making those particular distros.

It would only cost Valve money with hardly any gain to develop a fully-featured desktop OS versus the slimline console OS which is SteamOS. And that keeps SteamOS in that console-niche where a functioning controller is more important than having frequent (non-security) updates to the backend.

At least, that's how I see it as someone with a Debian-based distro running the Steam Client Beta and only booting up SteamOS once in a blue moon.

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This is very informative and should help others who have this dual-monitor issue.
It's a shame it has to be this convoluted, though...

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