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SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13

Posted by Soulskill on from the year-of-linux-on-the-steambox dept.

sfcrazy writes "Valve Software, creator of Half-Life and Left 4 Dead, has announced that SteamOS will be available for public download on December 13. That's the day when the company will start shipping Steam Machines and Steam Controllers to the 300 selected beta participants. The company said, 'SteamOS will be made available when the prototype hardware ships. It will be downloadable by individual users and commercial OEMs. (But unless you're an intrepid Linux hacker already, we're going to recommend that you wait until later in 2014 to try it out.)"

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  1. Fuck Valve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I cry and despare how even the Linux community has stopped questioning the fact that they're so willing to sign up to a service that can change the ToS on a whim and has DRM which potentially deny access to the games you purchased (either through a mistake on Valve's end, or simply due to a big in the client or bad connection issues, or even through Valve's demise). No-one questions DRM and just accepts it instead of fighting back.

    The fact the Linux community is so welcome to this shows that I have no-one left to associate with in Linux anymore. I feel so alone in attempting to resist the trend to authenticated accounts as opposed to just fucking making publishers of AAA games not have DRM in the first place.

    1. Re:Fuck Valve by couchslug · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Gaming is kiddy shit (sorry) and it's naive to expect much idealism from from the core audience.

      For Linux to reach a larger audience means catering to portions of that audience who just want free stuff.

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