Tim Sweeney Says Windows Cloud Is Ransomware

[Humbug]

6 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

also, having an out-of-the-box Netflix add-on/plugin would be great. Does Netflix work in the SteamOS browser?

yes it does. The steamos browser is based on chromium.

 

if you go outside steam I believe there is also an alternate browser ice weasel which is Firefox based.

 

Anyway they should have an easier to use Netflix app without users having to manually set things up.

[dalekphalm]

14 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

nah, you must use chrome or install the chrome based web app and add them as non steam app to see them on big picture 

 

 

14 minutes ago, Humbug said:

yes it does. The steamos browser is based on chromium.

 

if you go outside steam I believe there is also an alternate browser ice weasel which is Firefox based.

 

Anyway they should have an easier to use Netflix app without users having to manually set things up.

Two conflicting answers about Netflix

[Humbug]

4 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

 

Two conflicting answers about Netflix

lol admittedly I haven't tried it myself since I don't use steamos. My answer was based on a quick google search which suggested it now works despite not working previously.

[Bleedingyamato]

7 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

Not at all. In terms of distros just download a few that you think will be good and try it out in a VM first. (My personal favorites ar Kubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Linux Mint.)

Ok.  I'll have to check a few of those out sometime.  Thank you.  

 

3 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

Yes, but when compared to all the alternatives, a Gaming Only OS makes no sense.

 

Look at consoles, largely regarded as "simple gaming boxes". They have excellent support for third party apps and media centric features. Hell even MacOS does good in this regard (Kodi, Plex, and Netflix support, among others).

 

SteamOS just launches Steam. Well that's really not a great selling feature, as all the big Desktop OS's can do that (Linux, Windows, MacOS - granted, Game support varies wildly between them, with Windows keeping the vast majority of support to themselves).

 

The point is that SteamOS was supposed to be a "Console Killer" OS, when it was nothing of the sort.

This.

If all someone wanted was gaming a game only OS would be ok but I assume most people people would agree with you that it makes no sense.  The reason being that it's rather unlikely a person would never want to do anything else.  

 

 

Trying to make console killer when even Windows hasn't done that seems foolish.  lol

[vorticalbox]

On ‎09‎/‎02‎/‎2017 at 0:24 AM, Schubaltz said:

I am aware of that, but it's essentially stealing another company's game which Microsoft would be trying to profit from; it's never going to happen and Tim Sweeney is just fear mongering.

it's not stealing. Not support win32 and only UWP would be your choice by buying into the system that doesn't support it. This is like saying Linux is stealing my games then making me pay for wine (I know it's free just making a point) to play them.

 

It isn't ransom ware, it's not even close.

[Sauron]

I had no intention of ever using windows cloud anyway.

[RagnarokDel]

That guy is a nutcase

[Bensemus]

On 2017-02-08 at 4:21 PM, Ryan_Vickers said:

That said, doing something like that wouldn't be a first... iTunes does it with your music apparently

When has iTunes done anything like that?

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2 minutes ago, Bensemus said:

When has iTunes done anything like that?

There was a news story about it a while back where somehow it had kidnapped all the guy's music by uploading it to apple, then deleting it off his hard drive and then charging him for continued access to the cloud service

[spartaman64]

On 2/10/2017 at 6:33 PM, Bensemus said:

When has iTunes done anything like that?

https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/