WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120 There's so many rumors swirling around Valve lately. 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:07.360 A new Steam controller in mass production? Steam link on Raspberry Pi 5? 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:12.000 New branding guidelines suggesting powered by SteamOS consoles? 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:18.240 Is that for handhelds like this one from Lenovo? Or is it for the return of Steam Machine game consoles? 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:22.880 Either way, it really looks like Valve is ramping up to make a serious challenge 00:00:22.880 --> 00:00:26.960 to Microsoft's desktop dominance. And I sure hope they do. 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:32.960 Some of you probably remember that Valve's SteamOS started as a response to the threat 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:36.400 of Microsoft creating a walled garden with Windows 8. 00:00:36.400 --> 00:00:44.080 A threat that not only hasn't gone away, but might be even greater than ever with the consolidation of the Xbox and Windows stores. 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:52.720 There's only one small problem. As good as SteamOS is, delivering a console-like gaming experience for thousands of PC games, 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:56.160 even ones that were only ever intended to run on Windows, 00:00:56.160 --> 00:01:01.040 Valve still hasn't made a version that's designed for me to put on my custom PC. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.720 Or have they? As it turns out, Valve has been working away in the background, 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:10.800 preparing SteamOS for its promised official wide release. 00:01:10.800 --> 00:01:15.600 So I think now is as good a time as any to see what the experience is like 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:18.720 if you download SteamOS and throw it on your PC. 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:20.880 It's also a good time to learn about our sponsor. 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:36.560 Before you type that comment, yes, I know I don't need to wait for SteamOS to be a Linux gamer. 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:39.920 But in spite of what your friendly neighborhood neckbeard may claim, 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:45.440 most Linux distros still involve a lot of manual faffing about to get things working. 00:01:45.440 --> 00:01:51.760 And if Linux gaming is tricky for me, your little cousin Joey Mainstream is going to be screwed. 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:57.600 That is why we need SteamOS. Projects like HoloISO, Chimera, Bazite, 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:00.800 and the other one that you're furiously typing in the comments right now 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:05.120 are glimpses at a beautiful, penguin-powered future that could be. 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.120 But the fact of the matter is that barring some kind of earth-shaking change 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:12.160 when regular people make the great penguin migration, 00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:16.560 it's going to be on a steam-powered train. Let's see what the setup process is like. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:19.600 Now, I'm no Joey, I at least know what a computer is, 00:02:19.600 --> 00:02:25.120 but I want to play my games. And my favorite games include Anno 1800 and tape-to-tape, 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.360 not grub-boot entry simulator. I want it to be actually easy. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:34.720 As we're filming this, there are two ways for a non-developer to get SteamOS 3. 00:02:34.720 --> 00:02:40.160 Option one, buy a Steam Deck. Easy, but you're stuck with a Steam Deck. 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:45.520 Option two, download the Steam Deck recovery image, flash that to a USB key, and install it on compatible hardware. 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:48.880 Valve is committed to making a proper installer before the full release, 00:02:48.880 --> 00:02:55.040 but that's the way you do it now. Less easy, and it doesn't help that at the time of filming, 00:02:55.040 --> 00:02:58.320 Googling install SteamOS actually leads you to the 00:02:58.320 --> 00:03:03.280 build-your-own-steam-machine page for the old Debian-based SteamOS 2 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.320 from like a decade ago. That's kind of rough for Joey. 00:03:06.320 --> 00:03:10.640 Well, to Valve's credit, at least it links to the page for the Steam Deck recovery image, 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:17.280 so I think we can figure it out. We used Rufus to image it to a USB drive, booted the live image, 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:20.880 picked this option to re-image our Steam Deck, 00:03:20.880 --> 00:03:24.240 then we basked in this glorious wall of fast-scrolling text, 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:30.240 and that's it. We've installed SteamOS on our hardware for a total cost of zero dollars. 00:03:30.880 --> 00:03:33.760 Take that, Microsoft, and thanks, Gaben. 00:03:34.480 --> 00:03:38.640 But does it work? Well, the thing is we won't know until we reboot, 00:03:38.640 --> 00:03:43.440 because everything that you've seen so far can be done even on unsupported hardware. 00:03:43.440 --> 00:03:48.640 What do you mean unsupported Linus? Linux supports like everything, doesn't it? 00:03:48.640 --> 00:03:56.560 Well, yes, but also no. Linux is an umbrella term that we use to describe many distinct computing experiences, 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:03.200 and it's up to the maintainer of the Linux distribution to decide what it does and doesn't do out of the box. 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:06.480 And as you'd imagine, the Steam Deck recovery image is developed for, 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:11.760 well, the Steam Deck first and foremost, which results in some key hardware requirements, 00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:15.360 the Big 2 being a discrete AMD GPU, 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.560 and an NVMe boot drive to install to. 00:04:18.960 --> 00:04:22.160 Also, this is fun, during the setup process, 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.200 there is not any kind of prompt for which driver, 00:04:25.200 --> 00:04:31.120 which partition you'd like to install to. It just assumes that you want to totally overwrite the drive of your Steam Deck, 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.960 so consider yourself warned. While I'm throwing out warnings, 00:04:34.960 --> 00:04:41.120 there's also limited firmware included. Support for Marvell network cards, for example, is mostly missing, 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:44.240 and there are some special requirements around sleep modes. 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:48.080 The TLDR, though, is basically use the hardware that you can find 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:52.560 that is most similar to a Steam Deck, if you want to try this for yourself right now. 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:58.720 For our test system, then, we went with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G on a Nasus Prime B550MA motherboard 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:02.880 with 16 gigs of DDR4 memory from G-Skill. That's a big Steam Deck. 00:05:03.520 --> 00:05:08.000 Now, we did notice some mentions of NVIDIA in recent SteamOS patch notes, 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.760 so we did try installing with an RTX 3060 GPU, 00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:17.040 but while we were able to boot the USB drive and we were able to clone the image to the NVMe drive, 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:22.320 we were not able to continue with the setup process and instead got this garbled screen. 00:05:22.320 --> 00:05:25.680 Our mission today does not include troubleshooting drivers 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.920 or the Linux boot process. I don't care if you think it's easy, Joey doesn't. 00:05:30.880 --> 00:05:35.280 So, we listened to Valve and switched back to a Radeon RX 7600, 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:40.400 where we had a much better time getting through the, actually, refreshingly simple setup. 00:05:40.400 --> 00:05:44.240 Pick a language, pick a time zone, pick a network and let it do its thing. 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:48.320 Now, I don't know why I get a battery low warning on a desktop, 00:05:48.320 --> 00:05:51.760 but in the grand scheme of things, that's a pretty small issue 00:05:51.760 --> 00:05:55.680 and a few minutes later, we can sign in either with our username and password 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:59.120 or via the Steam mobile app. After a quick scroll and click, 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:05.760 we're off to the races in game mode. Now, you've probably all seen the Steam Deck interface at this point. 00:06:05.760 --> 00:06:09.120 Cosmetically, it's basically desktop big picture, 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.040 but Valve tries to squeeze out a little bit of extra horsepower 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:16.320 by running it on the lighter weight gamescope micro-compositor 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:19.760 instead of in the full desktop environment that we'll look at in just a moment. 00:06:20.320 --> 00:06:24.720 The UI is okay with a keyboard and mouse, 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:31.440 but it's really designed to be navigated with a controller from the moment you boot to the moment you finish your last one more round 00:06:31.440 --> 00:06:36.320 and then head to bed. Let's give it a shot. Oh, you got one of my favorite games on here, let's go! 00:06:37.280 --> 00:06:41.280 No way. Is this the new Hori Steam controller? Yep. Definitely a controller. 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:44.320 These are not even analog triggers. 00:06:45.760 --> 00:06:49.600 Oh, what a terrible shot. I'm filming to him. I know, I know, it sucked. 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.200 Boom, take that. Boom, take that. Oh no. 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:58.240 I think the most remarkable thing about this gaming experience is that there is absolutely nothing remarkable about it. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:01.760 This is exactly what it's like to play this game on Windows. 00:07:01.760 --> 00:07:06.000 Complete chaos. Okay, we got 10 seconds. One last rush, here we go, here we go, 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:07.200 here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:14.080 Barely even getting shot away. You know what? You call it barely, I call it a shot. 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:17.920 Where's your shot? That's what I thought. Oh, this controller feels really cheap. 00:07:17.920 --> 00:07:22.240 Can I switch over to a different one? I could find something, yeah. It's probably the controller, Jordan. 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:27.280 It's got to be the controller issue. Is the dongle in there? You have a cable right in front of you you could probably use. 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:31.520 I mean, that's an option, I guess. Oh, it's an Xbox controller, I mean, sure, yeah, that should work. 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:35.200 Okay, here we go, here we go. Theoretically, this should just flawlessly work 00:07:35.200 --> 00:07:40.080 because, you know, SteamOS, let's go. Oh, there we go. 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.960 Yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense. Yep. All good. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:49.920 Here we go. Just shoot, thank you, finally. 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:53.360 It's such a seamless experience. It's kind of mind-blowing to me. 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.280 Like, I know SteamOS has been out for years now at this point, 00:07:57.280 --> 00:08:00.720 but the fact that this just works so flawlessly, 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.920 so effortlessly, is mind-blowing to me. 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:06.480 Okay, break up pass, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.800 Come on, someone put the bucket in that. 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:14.320 This is awful. Well, SteamOS won't make you a better gamer, that's for sure. 00:08:14.320 --> 00:08:19.680 All right, let's play something else. Install, what do we got? Hey, how about some vampire survivors? 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:21.200 Play some casual games. 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:28.560 Oh, balls. Oh, balls, I'm taking damage. I'm taking damage from bats. 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.840 What am I, the Joker? Nothing, buddy. 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:35.440 Oh yeah, here we go. Got that King Bible. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.840 Oh, let's go, here's my King Bible. Boom, boom, boom. Take that, zombies, you got nothing. 00:08:40.400 --> 00:08:44.320 Oh my goodness. What in the Sam heck is going on here? 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:50.240 Get out of here, you lousy bats. Yeah, I forgot how hard it is when you don't have all the upgrades and stuff, 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.760 and all the better characters and everything. It's freaking hard. 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:57.120 I need upgrades, I can't get my jewels. I need them. 00:08:57.680 --> 00:09:03.200 Man, I gotta set this up in my living room. Like, I have a Windows install that has Steam on it 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:09.040 and is configured to launch Steam in big picture mode every time I turn it on, but I never bother with it because it's Windows 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:12.160 and it's just like stupid and tedious and Windows update 00:09:12.160 --> 00:09:16.160 and just like, it's not a console-like experience 00:09:16.160 --> 00:09:21.360 and that's ultimately what you want in the living room. You don't want to get up and go find your stupid mouse and keyboard 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:25.120 and like, you can use a mouse and keyboard. We'll talk a little bit more about that later. 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:27.840 But you don't have to, you can just be ready to go. 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.680 That's the Steam OS experience and I'm loving this. 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:37.680 What about all the just like, special like, Steam Decky stuff, like hardware monitor and stuff like that. 00:09:37.680 --> 00:09:41.120 Like, can we do any of that? Yep, the button's on that controller actually. 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:44.560 The button's on that. The three dot, oh, sorry, wrong controller. Oh! 00:09:44.560 --> 00:09:48.880 Hit Xbox. No, no, no, I'm going back to the, I'm going back to the Steam controller. 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:51.040 Okay, so I got my three dots here. 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:56.320 It's all there. Okay, that's, that's kind of cool. 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.880 If you don't have a Steam controller, Xbox button and A, we'll bring that up. 00:10:00.880 --> 00:10:04.000 Okay. It's Xbox button and A. 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:08.560 All right. Hey, cool. Well, let's disable the frame limit. 00:10:08.560 --> 00:10:12.000 What do we have any of that for? Performance overlay level. Oh, cool. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:16.400 So that's just that like 60 FPS counter that we've got. The normal counter thing you would get in Steam Deck. 00:10:16.400 --> 00:10:19.840 Oh, we can enable HDR. I wonder if it's going to work though. 00:10:19.840 --> 00:10:24.480 We can try and do maternal. Let's try it and do maternal. Why does it not look that HDR-y? 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:27.600 It's just- Oh, because the game's not nice to share. 00:10:28.560 --> 00:10:31.120 Okay. All right. Well, that'll help. Cool. 00:10:31.760 --> 00:10:37.440 Let's go with ultra and no matrixing. 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:43.120 That's probably a better bet. Valve has done some work on getting HDR to work in Linux with the Steam Deck OLED. 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:49.120 What I don't know is how well it's going to work on a TV. This TV also, not the brightest HDR TV, 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.320 so maybe not our best case scenario for testing. 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.800 In fact, honestly, it looks not great. 00:10:55.680 --> 00:10:59.920 I do wonder how much of it is the TV though, but everything thinks it's HDR. 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:03.360 Maybe this is one area where there's a little bit of room for improvement here. 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:10.000 Hey, the game's running great though. Getting 163 FPS and HDR is something where the Xbox and the PlayStation 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.160 are going to give you a just works experience. 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:18.880 Then again, like I said before, I don't know how much of the problem is just the fact that this TV is not very good. 00:11:19.280 --> 00:11:22.480 Ugh, I'm not playing this game with a controller really. 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:25.120 You could always keep working mostly. Oh, right. 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:29.120 What am I even doing right now? Oh, let's go. 00:11:31.280 --> 00:11:36.800 All of a sudden, you got good. Right? It's almost like there is a superior control scheme. 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:39.840 No, couldn't be. Bet. Oh, what? 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:41.920 Where'd you go? Oh, no. There we go. 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:47.280 The bottom line is that for living room gaming, most of what I would need is here. 00:11:47.280 --> 00:11:50.400 The 8-bit dough controller we tried worked out of the box with its dongle, 00:11:50.400 --> 00:11:56.160 or failing that any modern wired or Bluetooth controller should pick up without too much trouble. 00:11:56.160 --> 00:11:59.600 And I didn't have any issues with networking or sound, 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:03.040 though your mileage may vary there a little bit, like I mentioned before. 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:08.080 I would say that one glaring problem is that games launch at the Steam Deck's 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:14.560 native 1280 by 800 resolution. But this can be fixed by manually setting the system resolution in the settings, 00:12:14.560 --> 00:12:19.520 and then games should pick that up. Between Proton and native Linux versions of games, 00:12:19.520 --> 00:12:25.600 there is a huge library now. Like, man, compared to the last time we did a gaming on Linux video, 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:29.840 there is an enormous library of games that just work now. 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:34.240 And while there have been some regressions, notably for online competitive titles, 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:37.520 where the developers don't want to maintain their anti-cheat on Linux, 00:12:37.520 --> 00:12:40.560 game compatibility has mostly been growing steadily. 00:12:40.560 --> 00:12:46.480 I think with the right hardware, I'm pretty much ready to say that building a SteamOS game console for your living room is 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:54.160 pretty awesome. However, I can totally see why Valve has held off on saying the same. 00:12:54.160 --> 00:12:57.840 Most gamers demand more than just my Steam game works. 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:02.080 And there are some essential tools that can't simply be added from inside game mode, 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:06.320 like Discord and alternate game stores like GOG and Battle.net. 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:09.360 And, hey, this is a PC, right? 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:13.360 What if I need to get some actual work done? How is desktop mode coming along? 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:18.240 I guess now's a great time to continue using the mouse and keyboard that I've got right here. 00:13:19.280 --> 00:13:21.840 Power and switch to desktop. 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:28.400 That was quick. It looks like pretty much any other Linux desktop, 00:13:28.400 --> 00:13:33.760 although it isn't quite. SteamOS 3 is what's known as an immutable operating system. 00:13:33.760 --> 00:13:39.200 If you already know what that means and you have strong feelings about it, SteamOS is probably not meant for you. 00:13:39.280 --> 00:13:43.120 If you don't know what that means, the oversimplified TLDR is, 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:47.920 it means you can't screw it up too badly because it locks down critical system components 00:13:47.920 --> 00:13:52.320 and it will reset itself when you reboot. That doesn't mean you can't install software. 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:58.560 It just means that you're effectively limited to what's available in their flat pack-based Discover Software Center. 00:13:58.560 --> 00:14:03.440 These flat packs might not be as efficient as if you installed VA Package Manager, 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:08.480 but what it shows is that Valve learned very well from their community's love of, 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:12.800 hey, how do I fix X and Counter-Strike, press F10, 00:14:12.800 --> 00:14:20.080 trolling that has taken place over the years. They've made SteamOS pretty hard to bung up too badly because, think about it, 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:23.600 realistically, poor Joey would almost certainly fall for the old 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:26.480 RMRF asterisk trick at least once. 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:30.800 Now, to be clear, there are ways outside of their 00:14:30.800 --> 00:14:38.400 all applications list here to install software. We even found this script on GitHub that allows us to install dozens of non-Steam stores. 00:14:38.880 --> 00:14:43.040 But for the joeys out there, here's a standard disclaimer about running scripts 00:14:43.040 --> 00:14:48.480 that you find on the internet all willy-nilly. I'd recommend that you stick to the Software Center. 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.320 The question is, if you do that, can you get any real work done here? 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.360 Let's see. Are browsers... Oh, internet. There. 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:01.600 Okay, web browsers. Weave, Vivaldi, Brave, just the Chromium web browser. 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:07.360 Man, there's a ton of options here. This is great. And if you consider how much of it you do in a web browser these days, 00:15:07.920 --> 00:15:11.520 there's a good chance that we can get a lot of what we need to do done. 00:15:11.520 --> 00:15:14.640 What about Discord though? We mentioned Discord earlier. 00:15:14.640 --> 00:15:17.680 Hey, there it is. Four stars. Boom, install. 00:15:18.800 --> 00:15:22.800 Shameless plug for the LTT commuter backpack. We've got a lot more information available on it now, 00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:26.560 but in a nutshell, great backpack, 150 bucks. 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:30.720 Go for it, LTTstore.com. What else we got here? Oh, dude! 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:34.080 Oh no, we've lost them forever. Space cadet pinballs in here! 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:36.240 Here we go, here we go, here we go. Here we go, let's go. 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:42.240 Ba, really? Ba, come on! 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.240 Come on! 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:50.240 Oh, come on! Come on! 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:53.360 Come on! Okay, coming back to Discord. 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:56.480 Realistically, if you want to be able to use it while you're in game mode, 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.240 you need to add it as a non-Steam app in desktop mode first. 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:05.040 It's not a big deal, but it is the kind of thing that could trip up a less informed user. 00:16:05.040 --> 00:16:09.120 You can also do that with other apps like non-Steam games and browsers. 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:16.400 Browser can really come in handy over time in game mode. Now, of course, it is worth noting that since you're not concerned about conserving battery life 00:16:16.400 --> 00:16:20.080 and squeezing every last drop of performance out of mobile hardware, 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.360 you don't actually need to go back to game mode at all. 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.400 Steam works just fine here on the desktop. 00:16:26.400 --> 00:16:33.840 And as much as I love touchpads and joysticks, sometimes a keyboard and mouse is just plain a better way to use a computer. 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.600 With standard peripherals, I can happily use my browser and apps 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.040 just like I would on Windows, macOS, or any other Linux. 00:16:41.040 --> 00:16:46.080 The slash home folder is persistent, so you don't have to worry about losing your files when you reboot. 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.720 It just resets the system files so that the turn it off and turn it back on 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:56.880 really does work to fix most things. And other than that, it pretty much just works like I would expect a computer to work. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:03.360 Pretty much. We did run into a funny scenario a little while ago. We were trying to get an old printer working with generic drivers, 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.560 and I had a brainstorm that went, oh man, Linux. 00:17:06.560 --> 00:17:10.080 I bet Linux will work. I'll just grab a Steam deck. That already has Linux on it. 00:17:10.800 --> 00:17:15.920 Yeah, that's when I learned that SteamOS does not include support for printers out of the box, 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.600 and you might come across similar gotchas over time. 00:17:19.600 --> 00:17:22.480 Let's see if they've added it. No, they have not. 00:17:23.520 --> 00:17:27.440 Neat. So SteamOS. It's pretty great right now, 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:32.400 but it's clear that there's a bit of work to be done. So what about those rumors we were talking about? 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:35.280 Could new Steam machines be announced and released at any time? 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:42.080 Absolutely. And I think we're due. Valve has spent years getting SteamOS to the point where it's at. 00:17:42.080 --> 00:17:47.280 They've made some hard decisions along the way, but overall it works great on the right hardware, 00:17:47.280 --> 00:17:52.720 and it keeps getting better. And the playable game library is huge now with no signs of slowing down. 00:17:53.360 --> 00:17:56.800 With that said, is SteamOS 3 ready to dethrone Windows? 00:17:57.520 --> 00:18:03.200 Not yet. There's enough prickly edges that keep it from being a totally smooth experience, 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.200 and you can make the argument that Windows has a lot of prickly edges too, 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:11.440 but the difference is that so many more people know how to troubleshoot it. 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:15.600 So here's what I'd say is on Valve's to-do list. They need a simple installer, 00:18:15.600 --> 00:18:18.720 they need out-of-the-box support for a lot more hardware, 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:22.240 and just one or two more passes of spit and polish. 00:18:22.800 --> 00:18:26.560 Also printer support. I do believe that they're going to get there though, 00:18:26.560 --> 00:18:31.520 especially if Microsoft decides they want to risk their market share by forcing their store on everyone, 00:18:31.520 --> 00:18:34.560 or if they keep making unreasonable hardware demands. 00:18:34.560 --> 00:18:38.720 Now I think all that's left is to unreasonably demand that you hear this message from our sponsor. 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:44.800 If you guys liked this video, maybe check out our last video on Steam features that you might not know about. 00:18:45.520 --> 00:18:47.440 There's some really cool ones in there.