SteamOS announced by Valve, a free operating system “available soon” for living room

[Ike_009]

I'm not disputing linux as powerful all I'm saying is that this won't be the end of windows like some have said. I'm just saying talking about linux in an investment broker firm and a linux system for the living room is as related as Nasa's supercomputer to your cellphone.

If this is gonna work in the living room it needs to be easy to use and simple enough for any gamer to pick up and play without any effort on their part. So while I'm keen to see where this goes I seriously doubt it's gonna be the holy grail of gaming yet.

[AlphaJohn]

I'm not disputing linux as powerful all I'm saying is that this won't be the end of windows like some have said. I'm just saying talking about linux in an investment broker firm and a linux system for the living room is as related as Nasa's supercomputer to your cellphone.

If this is gonna work in the living room it needs to be easy to use and simple enough for any gamer to pick up and play without any effort on their part. So while I'm keen to see where this goes I seriously doubt it's gonna be the holy grail of gaming yet.

No where did I say its going to be the death of Windows? Funny enough neither did your post that I commented on. So your rebute about me not getting your point is kind of mute. All I was saying is I can see why SteamOS could be good for games.

Oh and an Android phone seem to be easy to use for the masses, and guess what its running on Linux. Tivio is allready infront of millions of TV's and guess what its running Linux, Same can be said for loads of other application that you don't even know about like Fridges, Hell even Samsung's new TV's running Linux.

So yeah it is possible to have a Linux Console that works for the masses.

That said, I did not see anywhere where valve said they trying to replace the Home/Gaming PC Just that the Steam Machine/Controller and OS will enable you to play your fav games in the living room. Guess that is why the announcement url had Living room in it as well not gaming desktop or home PC just living room.

Where it goes from here is up to us the consumers.....

[Clive Woofer]

I'm not disputing linux as powerful all I'm saying is that this won't be the end of windows like some have said. I'm just saying talking about linux in an investment broker firm and a linux system for the living room is as related as Nasa's supercomputer to your cellphone.

If this is gonna work in the living room it needs to be easy to use and simple enough for any gamer to pick up and play without any effort on their part. So while I'm keen to see where this goes I seriously doubt it's gonna be the holy grail of gaming yet.

In other words, you really missed the point of the entire discussion. The point was that Linux is much better at handling calculations than Windows, and someone posted the example of Linux being better than Windows at keeping track of stock-trading transactions. It was an example used to illustrate that Linux handles calculations better, nothing more.

[Ike_009]

And I've been following this since the first post and watching this slowly snowball and just been trying to bring things down a notch before people get ahead of themselves. Just calm down, plus where did I quote either of you 2 specifically, I'm trying to be very general in my opinion here, as in post 1 through to now.

[Necuno]

Next os/box should be: Play outside.

[Ike_009]

Also once again the linux inside a phone and that of a stock brokers is once more highly unrelated in terms of ease of use

[Clive Woofer]

Also once again the linux inside a phone and that of a stock brokers is once more highly unrelated in terms of ease of use

And once again, nobody said anything about ease of use. We're talking about the computing abilities of Linux vs Windows, where Windows comes in second-place. You seem fixated on the idea of ease of use when all we did was say that Linux handles calculations better than Windows, therefore should perform better than Windows in games.

I'm genuinely not trying to be rude, but you really don't know what the discussion was about if you want to take our example of stock trading on Linux vs stock trading on Windows and harp on about the ease of use of gaming computers. That tells me you missed the point of the discussion entirely.