Comments on: Online gaming power Steam disses Windows 8, pushes Linux

By: Ryus Lalonde

Ryus Lalonde — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:30:44 +0000

I’m sure the reason why steam is in decline is because they don’t fully support the new OS its there problem i don’t see any reason why windows 8 would hurt the PC business except for all the cry babies of course but they aren’t worth the trouble.

By: Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:29:37 +0000

i’m running win7 desktop, ubuntu on my laptop, and my win8 machine arrives next week
I’ll share my opinions with you guys then

By: Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:01:39 +0000

If I felt I had a good OS, I’d take on microsoft too!

By: Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:00:04 +0000

agreed!

By: Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:58:50 +0000

Hopefully something better than that awful GFWL program

By: loretta demaio

loretta demaio — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:53:16 +0000

I just bought a game called Steam Railroads, I can’t install it. I doesn’t install for systems past windows 7 and customer service doesn’t even get back to me. They are just ignoring my 7 attempts to get help or find out what I can do to have a running program. It looks like I wasted my money and time. I thought I could trust them.

By: Deadred Fingerhead

Deadred Fingerhead — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:51:17 +0000

PS – in no way are you forced to use the windows store to download anything.

By: Deadred Fingerhead

Deadred Fingerhead — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:49:24 +0000

I have Win8, and lo and behold I still have the ability to install whatever I want on my computer. Steam works fine, as does everything else I have installed. The windows store is not the only way to install things, and it never will be. Gabe needs to pull his head out of his substantial ass!

By: Rey

Rey — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:31:53 +0000

Most people aren’t saying windows 8 is a “bad” OS, it really isn’t. its the direction applesoft, I mean microsoft is going. it seems MS will soon lock out developers whom don’t use the windows store to market their product. not to mention the UEFI (I think that is what’s it called) that MS wants to enforce to lock out dual booting pcs. If more developers would make software for Linux I would make the switch permanent. I only keep windows 7 for gaming. I tried WINE and POL but many games play horribly if it all. I am exited about Steam for Linux. I use it on my son’s pc, along with Desura and POLed windows Steam, and all the games work good. TF2 looks just as good as well as l4d2. Windows 8 biggest flaw is it’s touch based interface and multi monitor ineffectiveness. people praise it for being innovative and needing change, but change isn’t always a good thing. should people change from breathing oxygen to carbon monoxide because it’s a change? cars still run on tires, should we change it square blocks for the sake od change? I think not.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:17:31 +0000

Windows 8 is freaking amazing. If you can’t acknowledge that it is the way of the future you fail to see how touch displays on mobile pcs are the way the whole industry is heading. I agree about the comment stating had Apple done what MS did with their OS people would have praised it left and right. Who would want full desktop functionality it something the size of a tablet. This would be the ultimate gadget and the best in terms if mobility. Just because Win8 looks different doesn’t mean it can’t do what the systems before it have done. It’s a full Windows environment and any Steam game you buy will work on it. I don’t know why Gabe cares when you can download Steam without going through the MS Marketplace. Oh wait, I do know why. The MS Marketplace is a competing platform to Steam. Plain and simple, this all about competition.