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spemanig said:

I mean, from video's I've seen on beta testers, it looks like it runs pretty similar to the UI of like the XBO and PS4. I don't really care if it technically still is a PC if it doesn't feel like one when I'm playing games. I do care if I can't play the games I want to play though, like one of the things I was looking forward to was playing a lot of the really cheap back catalog of AAA games on Steam, like GTA IV or Bioshock, but those aren't linux supported. (I just checked)

Isn't there a program called Wine that lets people play Windows games on non windows devices? Why doesn't Valve just have a program like that running in the background of Steam OS for the Steam Machine so people could still play those Windows games?

Wine only works for DX9 supported games ... Anything that requires DX10 and up your mostly out of luck. Plus you have to install that yourself ...