So I am like the school yard reject here. I own most of the games on the port report list, I run a 7870 on radeonSI, and I have a pretty good experience overall

So I am like the school yard reject here. I own most of the games on the port report list, I run a 7870 on radeonSI, and I have a pretty good experience overall. Framerates are of course not there, but I buy the hardware hoping that AMD will get there eventually. Only way to do so if someone generating market pressure for it to happen. The thing is, Valve is fucking up SteamOS royally. If they hadn't messed up, they would have had strict requirements on games entering the system, and spent real money paying developers to port in advance of the OS launch, and they would have actually been ready to launch it when they said they would. You know, around now. All those small form factor PCs now shipping Windows that were meant to be Steamboxes are a testament to Valve screwing the pooch. And it is entirely their fault for not being ready, like they could just say "hey, were making a controller and porting our games to SDL2, everyone else you're on your own" and then drop the ball on the controller and still not have Portal 2 out of beta on Linux. Great leading by example there. That, and SteamOS proper is just a cobbled together mutant of Debian, rather than a proper OS - seriously, why the fuck is Gnome on it? That is pre alpha software for a console OS release, where all that should be on the image is a kernel, some drivers, a display server (preferrably Wayland), the Steam runtime, Steam itself, and fuck all else because its for consoles and console users are only going to run Steam on it, especially when it has a browser and all the other dodads like voice chat and music playing they have integrated. So yeah, the article is mostly right - Valve used it as a ruse to get Microsoft to cooperate on promises about future releases easing off the Windows store. They probably got what they wanted, and SteamOS will become Episode 3 or HL 3 vaporware for years.