Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-17 Thread Stephen Partington
I generally do that anyhow... On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Dazed_75 wrote: Aye, but the worse thing is I am seeing a few that are OEM installed to use FAKE Raid0. That is so bad that they may as well say Wipe this machine when you get it On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Robert Holtzman

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-17 Thread Michael Butash
I was a bit taken aback that it was setup to stripe - sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. I tried that first time I had dual ssd's (twice a fast, right?) and lost one after 5 months. All data go poof. I ended up rebuilding with new disks as mirrors, and never thought to test fate a

Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Shawn Badger
I don't know how this hasn't made it to the list yet, but Steam released their Debian based gaming OS. Here is a link to download it http://repo.steamstatic.com/download/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe,

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Butash
I'm curious to see if it's as broken as ubuntu seems to be these days - feedback from adopters here appreciated. I spent 3 days last week trying to get ubuntu working with 13.10 on a fresh install, and since they're forcing use of a desktop cd, and not producing alt installs now, found the

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Partington
Well here are the installation options from Steam itself. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204085700 Enjoy! I plan on checking it out at home. Just need to figure out a way to shove another drive into my system. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Michael Butash

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Stephen Partington
Whups. wrong link: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Stephen Partington cryptwo...@gmail.comwrote: Well here are the installation options from Steam itself. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204085700 Enjoy! I plan on

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Paul Mooring
I really like Arch, but if you're looking for a user-friendly Ubuntu replacement look elsewhere. User friendly desktops distros are a crowded space (Fedora, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Mint, etc) and Chakra attempts to bring this concept to a fork of Arch. That being said Arch is specifically designed

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:48:56AM -0700, Michael Butash wrote: I'm curious to see if it's as broken as ubuntu seems to be these days - feedback from adopters here appreciated. I spent 3 days last week trying to get ubuntu working with 13.10 on a fresh install, and since they're forcing use

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Dazed_75
Actually the installer works as well as always EXCEPT in the presence of UEFI and Secure Boot. They also seem to get in the way of installing from flash drive. But since flash drives are sometimes seen by BIOS/UEFI as USB Hard drives, USB CDs, USB ?devices, etc you now have to look further into

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Butash
An Asus UX51Vz - no legacy boot option at all, pure EFI/GPT sadly. Sexy hunk of a laptop other than certain inclination toward windoze-only... -mb On 12/16/2013 02:06 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:48:56AM -0700, Michael Butash wrote: I'm curious to see if it's as

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 06:22:08PM -0700, Michael Butash wrote: An Asus UX51Vz - no legacy boot option at all, pure EFI/GPT sadly. Holy crap. I didn't know those were out there. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor Strangelove

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Dazed_75
Aye, but the worse thing is I am seeing a few that are OEM installed to use FAKE Raid0. That is so bad that they may as well say Wipe this machine when you get it On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 06:22:08PM -0700, Michael Butash