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6.7 from 11 review(s)





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Version: -- 2.195 2.148 2.117



Rating: -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10



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Version: 2.195

Rating: 7

Date: 2020-05-16

Votes: 12





SteamOS will provide what you expect - gaming from the couch, from your PC. connect your gamepad and you go.



but then again you could do the same with any other distro - steam provides big picture mode for all distros.



so all in all steamos is good but then again, there are other distros that do the same job.



my personal opinion is that steamos should not be based on debian. debian is a stable distro and you will not get the newest drivers and software from the get-go. if you want to do serious gaming you need the newest driver and software.





Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.195

Rating: 10

Date: 2020-02-07

Votes: 3





(+) A nice alternative to a smooth gaming experience! :)



(-) It is unreasonable to install non-existing hardware drivers on the system.

but I think it will overcome this problem in the future.





Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2.148

Rating: 5

Date: 2019-01-28

Votes: 22





The UNIX philosophy has always been that you should do one thing, and do it well. This distribution gets half of that right, so let's call it a 5/10.



Pros:

-- Has decently up-to-date video drivers for gaming

-- Steam preinstalled



Cons:

-- Lots of other distributions have reasonable up-to-date video drivers and Steam preinstalled

-- Nothing else to recommend it



Overall it's just an unfortunate artifact of how Valve has sadly (but understandably) backed off from native Linux gaming.





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