whm1974 wrote:[quote="Ikepuska]That's true, but I think of SteamOS as a part of the mostly successful push to start developers down the path of Linux ports. It's arguable if it was a necessary part or not, but I personally think that having a defined development target and the marketing features of SteamOS were preconditions to the larger success of the Linux Gaming movement.
We can agree or not on that last point, but I don't think we'd have gotten Shadow of Mordor on Linux without Steam Machines and SteamOS being a thing. That's just my opinion.[/quote]
I agree with you on both points. Although like I said before, I doubt that most of the folks who brought Steam Machines are using them as Living Room game consoles.[/quote][/quote]
I actually am! Just not only on the SteamOS side, I got a trackball and keyboard from logitec along with the wireless controller for when I'm in windows. I think, with careful shopping, that mid tier gaming can be had for ~ the price of the parts give or take with a warrantee and no need to buy the OS from them. It could be that I just lucked out though, since I've stopped looking once I got mine.