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I really, sincerely hope they will get rid of the block that allows only one computer to be signed in at a time. I don't like the idea of having to relogin every time I switch computers (as is the case now).
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I'd love to see Linux get 1st class graphics driver support from vendors. I pay as much for my Radeon card as anyone else, but the fglrx drivers STILL don't support X composite. But other then gaming I never boot into Windows these days anyway.
I'd love to see them just publish docs so we can get good drivers instead. Bluescreens from video drivers are still a problem on windows, it is an even bigger problem on linux with fewer resources going into making the driver, and fewer people using them to serve as paying testers. Nvidia and ati/amd have both made it very clear that they either do not have the desire or they do not have the resources to make good dr…
They have in the past, and got nothing but flak.
This is effectively the software-only equivalent of a console launch. Is anyone else skeptical that they can motivate publishers to spend time/money porting their games to the Linux platform? Valve certainly has a better chance than most at pulling this off (and likely enough user/market data to make this seem like a valid investment) I am still super skeptical that these publishers are going to spend the time portin…
Valve has three announcements this week: http://kotaku.com/looks-like-well-hear-about-valves-new-hard... One of the announcements is widely believe to be the long-rumored Steam Box hardware...
At least that's true for me and various of my 'internet friends'
I don't like that Valve says that SteamOS is "freely licensable". They must know by now that the word "free" often means "libre" in the GNU/Linux community, but they've made no indication of what the license terms will actually be.
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I really doubt an ethernet connection can push a full HD video frame in 1ms. The <1ms is for ping, which uses a really small network packet. Pushing 1080p HD video is a totally different matter.
ping uses whatever size packet you tell it to: $ ping -s 1450 192.168.11.10 PING 192.168.11.10 (192.168.11.10): 1450 data bytes 1458 bytes from 192.168.11.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.646 ms 1458 bytes from 192.168.11.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.478 ms 1458 bytes from 192.168.11.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.469 ms
For raw 720p RGBA you'd send: 1280 * 720 * 32 = 29,491,200 bits but obviously you're not going to do that. Suddenly you're not only sending data but also encoding / decoding it.
Can you sideload games that aren't on Steam?
Current Steam lets you add non-Steam games. No word yet (AFAIK) on whether or not that will continue when it becomes its own OS.
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In-home Streaming seems to be backwards compility answer. This means they don't start with empty plate like Android for example. To keep cheap rig in living room for stream playing and media center, does not seem to be so bad idea. Most gaming will happen still whereever main rig is, but when you have friends over, you can just move to living room. And knowing steam(compared to others), I think it will be decently ou…
I'd love to see Linux get 1st class graphics driver support from vendors. I pay as much for my Radeon card as anyone else, but the fglrx drivers STILL don't support X composite. But other then gaming I never boot into Windows these days anyway.
Oh my god. This provides a genuine chance for year of the linux desktop in 2014, for gamers at least.
Isn't this specifically not a desktop system?