Valve and Linux... my, my, things are getting interesting! - by lost_soul
jay pettitt on 9/8/2012 at 09:41
Quote Posted by angryinternetman
Maybe Valve can produce a Linux distro of their own. I installed Ubuntu X64 today on a 770 chipset system and encountered various bugs. For example when shutting down, the HD would park, but I would have to hard shut off the system. To be frank, this is un-****ing-acceptable considering this is a "stable" release of a distro that has been around for so many years.
For the record, Windows had bugs like this... in 19-****ing-98.
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http://www.ubuntu.com/community/report-problem)
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http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/)
What is acceptable is that, if you report them, bugs get fixed and you can suggest changes to features and UI design and so on.
Briareos H on 9/8/2012 at 09:55
With this and the fact that Steam is going to sell apps from now on, I can't shake the feeling that Valve are going the Android way with a Linux-based OS and an application distribution platform, at least for their future console. Sounds reasonable, but I don't like it.
