Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
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
(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.