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Chazore said:

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).

I woudn't mind a more functional desktop. Doesn't need fancy speech features, just a package manager like GNOME Software and Debian repositories out of the box would make it a much more functional OS.