STEAM OS - What do you think?

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Kerotan said:

Bokal said:
What prevents game developers to write for the "Linux desktop" is most of the time the fact that supporting the different distributions, libs, environments is just too complicated.

What SteamOS is trying to achieve is to give them a unique and stable platform to develop on and maintain their games on.
It could be enough, or not. We'll see. If some AAA could run on SteamOS, I'd gladly skip on a PS4 to buy a more powerful and up to date steam machine.

Android and ChromeOS are two very successful Linux platforms. You wouldn't notice it's Linux, it's not one bit complicated, or require special skills. Why SteamOS couldn't be?

What about the next playstation running the steam os? Get it into 80 million homes while launching steam on playstation. 

Huh? Because you don't have 80 million to start with. And Sony would have to port their libraries to Linux, making the before closed system wide open for anyone, including hackers. Won't happen