Valve, what could they possibly be doing in their offices right now?

[Zappykins]

Chazore said:

Zappykins said:

Well, Gabe has worked on many MS products, and it's not a really a new OS, but modifying Linux to what they want for it.  So far, even their own games like Left for Dead, haven't run as well as other platforms yet.  They still have their work cut out for them.

I think they will launch something like Half Life 3 as a SteamOS only if they can get it run decently.

And if we go with that example of having worked on something ebfore, MS has done the same when it comes to DX and look at how 12 is (not) working out. Again these things take time and if we're more than willing to give MS the benefit of the doubt when it comes to UWP, DX 12, W10 then I'm sure we could do the same for a single OS from Valve.

Well, if we compair apples to apple DirectX 12 offers at least a 20% improvement over DX11, and sometimes a 300% improvement.  At best SteamOS hasn't been able to achieve anythign beter than 20% worse, on their own games, yet.  So even at the best case senario it's has a long way to go.