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The big SteamOS beta update that Valve shipped last month has now officially been released into the stable updates branch.
This is a very large update. It includes a new 4.11 Linux kernel, and updated drivers for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics hardware. This update also switches SteamOS from the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO driver to the open source mesa driver. Debian 8.8 and security updates are also included.
Source: GamingOnLinux
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SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday June 09 2017, @09:29PM (4 children)
Every *second* version? As far as I can tell only 98SE, 200, XP, and 7 were worth a damn.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday June 09 2017, @11:45PM (1 child)
Wow, exactly my list, even though I never liked XP.
Since then nothing.... 8, 8.1, 10, 10-whatever, all of them so maddening!!
7 is probably the best of all of them. Not the lightest.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 10 2017, @04:05AM
MS realized they made something too good with 7, meaning they went "Shitshitshitshit we made another XP, they're still gonna be using this by the time we have Moon colonies." So, with the typical too-big-for-its-britches corporate blend of arrogance, tone-deafness, greed, and hubris, they invented The Next Big Thing and pushed it harder than any other turd they've ever strained out before, all to get a piece of all the flash-in-the-pan fads, control users, externalize costs (of course onto said users...), and force profits.
If you ask me this is perilously close to rent-seeking behavior, to say nothing of the utterly creepy baked-in telemetry. I work 2 jobs, and the first one is at a local computer repair/build place. We're all Linux heads, even the man at the front desk, but our clients are all Windows and all we can do for them is Shut Up 10.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @02:59AM
I remember folks who got a "Windoze" app and it wouldn't run on their 9x install.
Turned out it was NT-only.
...and folks say that Linux is confusing with all those distros. Heh.
2000 was the last one that didn't require Product Activation.
After that, Windoze was dead to me.
Not even interested in a dual boot.
Oh, and I forgot to call the one between 7 and 10 "Tiles 8".
Again, there are Windoze users who say that Linux would be a big change for them.
Again: Heh.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday June 10 2017, @09:33AM
2K3 X64/XP X64 was a damned fine OS (I used it to completely skip Vista at home after seeing what a POS it was on my pretty beefy work PC) and 8.1 once you toss the fugly desktop for a Win 7 desktop (which I see as no different than using a different shell in Linux) is a quite solid OS.
But I honestly just do not see a point in SteamOS for one simple reason....it will never have a 10th of the Steam catalog! It would be like Netflix offering "Netflix app" that would only play 1 out of every 10 shows that are on Netflix...who would want that? And what is worse if you look at the games SteamOS actually has? The majority has been offered DRM free so why bother with having it on SteamOS when you can just download the DRM free version directly?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.