Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

[Stephen Partington]

Well here are the installation options from Steam itself.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204085700

Enjoy! I plan on checking it out at home. Just need to figure out a way to
shove another drive into my system.


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

>  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
>
> http://repo.steamstatic.com/download/
>
>
>
>
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