Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

[Michael Butash]

I'm curious to see if it's as broken as ubuntu seems to be these days - 
feedback from adopters here appreciated.

I spent 3 days last week trying to get ubuntu working with 13.10 on a 
fresh install, and since they're forcing use of a desktop cd, and not 
producing alt installs now, found the install process to be entirely 
broken.  A new laptop with only EFI boot apparently leaves me few 
options for distributions, namely excluding debian which I was going to 
attempt to migrate to avoid ubuntu's steady decline in 
quality/stability.  Hopefully Valve heads this off using the 
Ubuntu/Debian base.

I spent the weekend attempting to abandon Ubuntu and learning Arch (or 
trying to) after the ubuntu fail, which wasn't exactly easy, and simply 
finding just about every step requires some extensive research of 
packages, lack of automagical setup, and sadly most any ease found in 
Ubuntu I've apparently taken for granted.  Not to mention I'm not 
finding pacman packages for most things I need/want (doubt Steam is 
going to be supported on Arch anytime soon).

Maybe Valve injecting their two bits around Debian too will help that, 
but I doubt it'll support more enterprise-y features like raid, 
encryption, and lvm as part of the install features I need. Then again, 
I wish Ubuntu would just put it back said features or produce an alt cd 
again including them natively until someone fixes their broken desktop 
installer.

-mb


On 12/16/2013 08:40 AM, Shawn Badger wrote:
> I don't know how this hasn't made it to the list yet, but Steam 
> released their Debian based gaming OS.
> Here is a link to download it
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> http://repo.steamstatic.com/download/
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