Valve dev says SteamOS isn't about killing Windows: 'If a user has a good experience on Windows, there's no problem'

I was saying death to Windows.

"If"

SteamOS is about Valve not paying Microsoft a license fee. It's not some egalitarian move by them but a cost saving. From a game dev's perspective it's additional cost and effort to port a game, or hope it runs under emulation with Proton.

I am surprised they haven't used it for cloud gaming yet since that's where the real cost savings kick in but I bet they're still saving on each Steam Deck they sell without Windows on it.

good experience on Windows

Windows 7 was the last time I had that experience lol

its honest a boon for gamers as microsoft now actually has to spend more effort making windows betters for gamers then spending all of its effort on windows for arm and AI. one of the things windows as an OS lacks is that the handheld experience is actually trash, and the OS is a resource hog for a handheld device

It's not about killing windows… but if it were to have an accident, y'know… I'm just sayin'…

I need Windows to die because I'm tired of having to use it just to get proper HDR and Nvidia support. Or at the very least, AMD GPUs need to get better.

Killing windows would just be a little happy accident

The way that's worded implies that the only way it can hurt Windows is if Windows sucks. Subtle and true. Do better Microsoft. Or don't. We don't care, we're just doing our own thing.

Windows feels like a bit of a sinking ship. Not entirely, and it's slow, but the feeling is present and consistent. I don't want to keep having to rip apart the OS to remove shit they shoved onto my hardware without my consent. I just want an easyish experience that I can do my shit on, and they aren't really interested in that it feels.

In comparison to that, alternatives like steam os sounds great to your average user.

That "If" is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence. Really interested to see where SteamOS goes in the future.

See that's how you get people to like you more. Not whatever the hell social media CEOs keep doing.

It's easy to understate what an unusual project SteamOS is. It represents over a dozen years of work from some of the industry's finest, is funded by a private company, yet is open source and free for everyone to use. "I'm pretty happy that we've managed to find a balance that's beneficial to everyone, while still being able to help this PC ecosystem in this way," says Griffais. "I'm really happy about that."

I can't wait to try it

Well yeah... Windows users can still use Steam. They sell games. They don't want people to switch anything; they wanna sell more games.

I've finally banished Windows to a virtual machine, and am gearing up to fistfight Easy: Anti-cheat Rootkit AKA Fucking piece of shit that does precisely fuck-all to stop cheating despite having access to kernel space in order to get Sea of Thieves working on my virtual machine.

The killing is more a side effect than the actual goal. Got it.

Windows is done. The only thing that can save it is if they turn it into a spy machine that can do your laundry. Then users will happily give them the keys to their lives and underwear.

Microsoft wants all future apps to go through their store. Basically like Apple does in Mac [ appears you can ]. I do believe this is the future for Windows apps. Once that happens, Valve running on Windows will be second fiddle. Valve's only choice is to migrate to another OS or end up like Mozilla.

That's cheeky.

Honestly almost everything works on my steam deck. The only things that don't work are online only games with anti-cheat, and I barely ever touch those. I could possibly make the leap on my main pc to be fully steamos

Windows: So you're saying there's a chance

It's about making more steam users. Windows is great, they can use steam. They're going after people who can't afford a pc. If people get a deck or steamos who already do own one, that's just gravy

Shots fired!

the only one that can kill windows is microsoft

Big "if" these days

Kill windows we must.

Ouch, someone got roasted!

What about Microsoft isn't a hollowed shell at this point? Maybe letting go of the gamers will let them find out a new way to make money.

In other words, git gud scrub

It's about making money and buy valve ceo a new mega yacht

It's not about killing Windows.

It's about slowing making G*mers comfortable with the idea of Valve's own closed off ecosystem.

They have already made G*mers comfortable with not owning their games, loot boxes, micro transactions.

This is just another example of Valve being the money grubbing, monopolistic, anti-consumer company that they've somehow got away with for years now.

It is hilarious to me that Lemmy users, who seem to mostly be obsessed with Linux (borderline Arch users except slightly less annoying about it), talk like Windows is such a massively hated OS when it is literally still the most widely distributed and used OS in the world. Like yes, so many people globally hate Windows which is why everyone keeps using Windows and not switching to something they hate less. Of course.