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WolfpackN64 on 18 June 2017
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Azzanation said:
WolfpackN64 said:

And it's not really that difficult to use. The GNOME Shell GUI is just vastly surperior compared to Windows Explorer. My girlfriend only used Windows all her life and it took her just an hour or two to get acquainted with the UI and to get VLC and other programs up and running.

I agree its a better OS however the fact it lacks games/contents is the biggest problem because Steam Machines is all about games. Thats the beauty part about Windows and why we pay for it, because the support is there. Also Windows 10 is a great OS for gaming, we arent talking about Vista here. Windows 7, 8 and 10 are amazing OS's for gaming which doesnt warrent a change of OS. Why would you want to sacifice your games line up for an OS you wont notice a difference in performance? 

Win10/Steam is the best combo for PC gaming right now, Linux lacks the game library, Mac also lacks the game lineup and DX12 a feature exclusive to Win10 and wont be available for Mac or Linux anytime soon (From what i know). Your biting the bullet more leaving Windows gaming for a little gain in an OS. If Win10 sucked at games i would have gone Linux long time ago, however it doesnt. Valve is one of my favourite gaming companies in the world and yet they stuffed up with Steam Machines and this Linux crap.

I made a Windows 10 gaming PC for the purpose of gaming. I'm not going to build one again. The OS is unstable on my machine, while tests with Linux ran just fine. The settings are a nightmare and need to be babysat (one update turned on all telemetry features while I had turned them all off before). Linux's gaming performance and game selection is getting better and it benifits from Vulkan. Apple's API support is getting better with Metal and external GPU support baked in the OS.

Windows 10 has proven too frustrating for me to accept it's dominance through games. I'm going back to Mac fulltime. If your game isn't on Mac or usable through Wine (all games will one day run through it just fine as Wine is also in progress of implementing DX11 and the older DX versions over Vulkan) I'm just not getting it. The biggest problem with my problems on Windows 10 is that their very inconsistent. My machine has random problems, after an update, they'll be gone, but I'll have new ones. I know several people who's PC's run Windows 10 just fine and others have inexplicable problems. I service multiple PC's in my family and troubleshooting crashes in Windows 10 is a nightmare since they're nearly never hardware related.

Valve had their valid reasons. They didn't want to support the Windows status quo and they partially succeeded in getting more game support for Linux. I think that is VERY commendable.