Its not gonna be a solid solution for hardcore gamers, but I like how they want to find alternatives to Windows. Again if devs were using OpenGL more often it would be no problem.
But MS beeing corrupt pricks as they are, made certain arrangements with game studios to use their directx. this way gamers have no other choice but to buy windows.
Yeah, I'm hopeful of what they come up with too. I'm no "code monkey" (sudo reminds me more of a Phil Collins song than linux code). But I did resurrect, with Mint, an ancient iBook I found in one of my drawers. Did to see if I could do it, lol. Thing booted up 10x faster than the Mac OS. Surfing, burning, etc. just ran faster with the same hardware that slogged along with the Mac OS.
The drawback was that, back then, there wasn't a lot of software to expand on it. Don't even talk about games. So my iBook just became a fast notebook.
I don't think the rumored Steambox will run Crysis at ultra on sub $300 hardware, but I'm anxious to see what they come out with the next few days.
