[chuckwfinley]

Mainly packaging and bundling everything together in one drop-in package for every day users to get access to. I've run Linux for 20+ years now, and gotten steam games working a few times over that period of time. Not hard, not impossible, but is probably more than the average Windows user wants to figure out.

SteamOS is really about bringing that final experience to the most number of people, and I am really supportive of their efforts!

[surgical_fire]

Hmm, At least on Mint there is no trickery to get Windows games running on Steam.

Install Steam, install game, play it. That is mostly it.

Very few games require some fiddling with Proton versions, but I reckon that the fiddling would be the same on SteamOS.

[reddalo]

My desktop has dual boot Windows and Linux, but I've never bothered playing games on Linux.

Maybe I'll try to dual boot Linux and SteamOS, just to have a "safe" and working Steam environment.