> I was enthusiastic about the Linux-based Steam OS, that is, until I noticed that, for whatever reason, they MANDATED a 500GB disk partition, onto which one mu

> I was enthusiastic about the Linux-based Steam OS, that is, until I noticed that, for whatever reason, they MANDATED a 500GB disk partition, onto which one must load THEIR disk image. Really? > As if Linux users would accept such absurd demands. Well, yeah, that's SteamOS. Linux users should be installing the standalone Steam client within their existing distro, not a completely separate operating system.