Oh, well, I didn't get that at all since you asked about it on Linux, so I assumed that you meant Linux versus non-Linux.Erm...I'm not sure if you read my quote correctly here. That sure goes for windows, but I said:
And aside from the streaming feature, I don't see what the benefit over steam on linux is to begin with.
I can just install ubuntu or mint on this computer*, use the package manager to install steam on it and game that way. Why should I instead go for steamOS?
It's all nice and dandy that it's "built for gaming"...but aside from some interesting benchmarks when compared to windows**, I have no idea how it stacks up against other linux clients.
Or how the overall interface will look on an operating system that's built for a television screen to begin with... :-\
Anyways it'll probably have some interface that's easily dealt with on the relatively large-size and low-resolution of TVs. Most people that
Those aren't going to impact gaming unless a HDD scan is happening while you game, and most AVs are courteous enough to not do that anymore, especially since it's very obvious that disk I/O is the slowest part of any modern machine nowadays.**besides...exactly how fair is such a comparison? On windows, I don't dare to disable my firewall or virusscanner. Kind of obvious that linux benchmarks better then.
Yeah, but it might be more limiting, think ChromeOS or the PS3's OS, or Android. Linux distros generally have KDE, Gnome, XFCE, Blackbox/fluxbox, and more. Therese desktop environments can have radical differences and change the way you interact with the system, something you can't really do on Windows (just launch a fullscreen program and try your best to stop it from being minimized).Oh wow. That was entirely unintentional.
Fraid I still don't understand though, do you mean aspects of the GUI that you can normally change on Linux distros? Like for instance, Valve being able to make a Start button type thing that pulls up your game library instead? Or am I entirely missing your point?