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misterchoc90 on 24 September 2013
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allenmaher said:
Anfebious said:
What does this mean? Steam for Linux? What is so good about tihs?


They use Ubuntu Core 12.04 LTS as the basis of thier distribution.  This means a complete opensource robust OS underneath on which you can run just about anything.  On top of that they have added big picture and some steam logos.

No viruses.  Rock solid. Minimal overhead. No cost to you.  Really well supported (bugs fixed very quickly).  Very secure.

Downsides... while NVIDIA drivers are great, AMD are hit and miss but improving, Intel is quickly aproaching par.  On most other fronts, networking, CPU performance, disk performance, things are better than the windows world.  Some esoteric audio hardware may not function at peek efficiency (they dropped a hint about fixes in the works).

You can build your own and download and install the software.  Multiple manufacturers can build a steambox... competition in console providers.

This!

Man, this is so awesome. I've been using Lubuntu a lot (Ubuntu with LXDE. The Unity interface sucks IMO) and I only use Windows whenever I have to play video games. I have a dual partition, with the Lubuntu partition being my secondary one (around 50 gigs or so). Maybe now I won't need a Windows partition, but maybe I'll keep it around as a secondary partition just to run Unity (the game engine) with Visual Studio :)