It sure is gettin Steamy in here! (SteamOS)

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Speaking in monetary terms methinks a lot of developers, big and small, will be interested in this. Microsoft's certification model is fuckall terrible across the board. Takes too long, too expensive, too much beaurocratic BS, ego stroking, etc.

What I'm curious about is how will drivers be handled? Especially nvidia. The Linux community and nvidia arent exactlyon the best of terms due to conflicting ideologies on openness. Nvidia doesn't want anyone knowing what's going on under the hood of their driver software and their Linux tech support is...fucking awful at best. Linus Thorvald and the Linux community cry foul at nvidia because of the open source ideology that Linux is all about. It's a big clusterfuck, really. AMD has always been more Linux friendly, but considering that Nvidia has a large market share of the GPU market it'll be interesting to see how the StOS repository will handle it all.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Grandmaster_Skweeb

Speaking in monetary terms methinks a lot of developers, big and small, will be interested in this. Microsoft's certification model is fuckall terrible across the board. Takes too long, too expensive, too much beaurocratic BS, ego stroking, etc.

What I'm curious about is how will drivers be handled? Especially nvidia. The Linux community and nvidia arent exactlyon the best of terms due to conflicting ideologies on openness. Nvidia doesn't want anyone knowing what's going on under the hood of their driver software and their Linux tech support is...fucking awful at best. Linus Thorvald and the Linux community cry foul at nvidia because of the open source ideology that Linux is all about. It's a big clusterfuck, really. AMD has always been more Linux friendly, but considering that Nvidia has a large market share of the GPU market it'll be interesting to see how the StOS repository will handle it all.

I'm quoting all of this because I don't know enough about what I'm talking about to unpack it, but all my searching along the lines of "How do I fix my Linux machine this time" have said something along the lines of "Linux has no AMD support, buy NVIDIA or cry more." Seems kinda odd that google would lead me astray like that. Not that I've had any trouble with AMD's drivers.