Little bit sad, that almost every one is it calling "steamos" but nah.... very good news.

Well yeah, they are targeting Steamos only. Valve could have called their distro SteamLinux or even better, SteamGnuLinux, but it wouldn't have sounded as good. As long as they keep mentionning that it actually is Linux in official places, I'm ok with that.

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Because Liam asked :

What are you most looking forward to in future from Steam on Linux? Or if you shy away from it, why?

It might also just be the will to speak about a recurrent topic that one's strongly opiniated about. ;)

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I've been awaiting the arrival of Steam on Linux eagerly and especially the Steam machines, for I knew/know it would/will give incredible traction to the OS, even though I didn't plan to use Steam myself.

Recently I've grown some respect for Valve for a number of reasons though. I hope they will continue in the way of openness. But until they get away with the DRM I'm still reluctant to buy anything on their platform, I don't want to lock my library on any platform, I want to be free to use a different app or OS-integrated way to manage my games. Sadly I know that as long as they don't have a real competitor, most games will only release on Steam and I might be forced to buy from them.

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it's trending way over it's goal at the moment so it should be an easy win guys.

If you're speaking about kicktraq's trending estimation, that's totally off until maybe the last couple days. It's not an easy win at all for Bloom, they'll probably reach it with a hard push from backers at the end.

I backed them, I like the atmosphere.

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I didn't know this either, but the Steam Controller has a gyroscope in it to enable motion controls, I hope games don't come out that require some sort of shaking of the controller, motion controls annoy the hell out of me.

Shaking QTEs, yeeeee...ewww.

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Quoting: Quote from hero900i played it and i really enjoyed it. until now i didn’t get any problem of any kind. i would like this game more if the dialogues were vocal (audio) so i don’t have to read

Voicing all dialogs reduces the writers' freedom. The vast majority of kickstarter backers specifically ask for RPGs to prioritize the richness and quantity of dialogs over voice acting them.
Personnally, when dialogs have voice, I always find myself reading the subtitles because it's much faster. Though I like to have a couple lines voiced for the atmosphere.

Avaliable? But for many people game don't work. Black screen and only "exit" button works

You should mention your issue on their forums. I've done it myself and was quickly contacted by their Linux dev to provide him more information.

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Quoting: Quote from GamerI will buy it as soon as it is on Desura

It won't ever be on Desura. They are contractually obliged by Microsoft to have DRM (exception made to Kickstarter backers) and they use Steam as the DRM.

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This is the key if they want to reach console players :

In the future we'll talk about how Steam will help customers understand the differences between machines, hardware strengths and weaknesses, and upgrade decisions.

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Quoting: Quote from NervHere is an interesting writeup of a test session with the Steam controller (by Tommy Refenes, the linux hating programmer of Super Meat Boy):
http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/62476523677/my-time-with-the-steam-controller [External Link]

Interesting but I'd be more interested in a perfectionist's test on typical keyboard+mouse games.

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it could offer better precision than a mouse, but I do still somehow doubt that.

It cannot. Simply because a fat thumb moving on a 2-3cm surface is less precise than five fingers controlling a laser on a 5 to 10cm surface.
I'm surprised they didn't come up with something really innovative. Actually, aside from the pads instead of sticks it looks... very standard.

games like first-person shooters that are designed around precise aiming within a large visual field now benefit from the trackpads’ high resolution and absolute position control

What ??? Like a pen tablet ? It sounds incredibly unusable.

I'm still interested in this controller, I think they will eventually come up with something a little bit better than any other existing pad. I think I will use this in combination with the Rift. (Because sadly I guess that using a keyboard without seeing it at all can be quite difficult at times).

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