So I've tried SteamOS on my PC...

[Chazore]

Mr Puggsly said:

Well Linux has been around for a long time. There was even a period in the early 2000s that PC manufacturers were trying to sell PCs with Linux installed at retail. Its just never had the software support or user friendliness to be a viable option. Apple PCs have also been used for gaming for many years, but avid gamers stick with WIndows for obvious reasons.

SteamOS isn't doing anything intersting therefore people don't see any reason to switch. Cutting edge PC gaming happens on Windows, while Linux users beg for more ports. Hence, the interesting stuff is happening on Windows.

I don't think Windows 7 gaming support is gonna end anytime soon, outside of some exceptions like MS's WIndows 10 exclusives.

When I said "many", I clearly meant PC users. I find it hard to believe you didn't understand that.

I don't see room in the market for Linux (not for a significant audience atleast). But Windows does have competition, mobile devices like Android are a great alternitive for many PC functions.

It still won't stop Steam OS from existing or growing to become an option regardless. Just look at what Apple has over MS that MS themselves cannot grasp despite both having been around for a long time, if you want to knock down Linux some pegs then knock down MS for they haven't got what Apple still has at the top of the chain, phones tablets and all.

Steam OS doesn't need to do anything other than to play games and play them well, your decision that Steam OS has to be some non gaming OS in order to be something special is rather non needed. I do not need Steam OS to do office documents, I do not need Steam OS to have a Siri clone to talk to, nor do I need a store built in or some fancy tiles let alone any connection to another system I have no plans on buying, why Steam OS would need to attach anything to a console like MS's one is beyond me (because Steam machines use the same OS so "play anywhere" is already a thing with custom built machines or Steam ones running the same OS).

Don't know why you needed to put beg in there, Linux users aren't poor paupers or anything of the sort, they just happen to like those that give them the time of day, you would to if someone paid some form of attention to you rather than ignoring out of spite for some other purpose (looking at MS and Win 7-8.1 users). Cutting edge isn't really all that cutting edge when you look at the big picture, the OS isn't the one doing the cutting edge work at play, no that goes to the hardware, the CPU, GPU and engine more of than the OS, otherwise hardware is virtually empty if the OS apparently does all the work and we know that isn't true at all. Also DX 12 isn't all that cutting edge with the results we've seen, if it was truly cutting edge we would be seeing enormous results right off the bat, you know with all the years DX has been around along with MS and all that money, that seemingly endless amount of money that could have been used along with the proper research to prevent such inadequate results from showing up each time a new DX api rears it's head.

We don't know when Win 7 will end but MS could ever so easily crush support on purpose to force the last remaining onto 10, I don't see why they wouldn't, they've been doing it with 10 and it's working out for them, why not do it each OS?, that tactic is apparently deserved and welcome according to those that adopt the OS, those that don't like the tactic are apparently mindless simpletons from what I've gathered over the numerous websites of Win 10 users towards 7-8.1 users.

"When I said "many", I clearly meant PC users. I find it hard to believe you didn't understand that." 

You seem to misunderstand that I meant PC gamers as well as non *hardcore* gamers, PC has plenty of casuals themselves that aren't in the lingo of OS usage let alone custom beefy rigs, you seem to forget the different markets that exist within the PC space, we aren't all hardcore folk who know exactly how and when to build a PC.

I see more than enough room, plenty in fact with all the other OS's that exist and time to grow as well, maybe not to you, but to others they can see it as a working alternative, more so than Android since that OS hasn't been geared towards the "cutting edge" gaming you've been talking of, if anything that OS is geared towards the non hardcore gaming market than the one you speak of with Windows.