Update: The latest issue to hit SteamOS reolves around waking the OS up from sleep mode, which according to one Valve employee is more hassle than it’s worth due to a lack of graphics support on Linux. Check out Page 3 for more.
Back in the early 2000s, Valve Software was best known for creating the beloved first-person shooter Half-Life, and we were all waiting patiently for the next installment of Gordon Freeman’s futuristic adventures in Half-Life 2.
Fast forward 15 years, and Valve’s then-side-project, the Steam games distribution platform, is now at the center of its business, as faster internet connections and more spacious hard drives have essentially gotten rid of physical media as far as PC gaming is concerned.
Today we’re in much the same boat. Anyone who has ever so much as handled a controller is waiting for the Half-Life 3 announcement. Steam has gone from being a controversial and slightly annoying way of getting games to the PC gamer’s title hub of choice. Bubbling away in the background this time is SteamOS, the Linux-based operating system which forms a big part of the company’s plan to infiltrate the living room gaming space.
Now that Steam Machines are out in …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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