After Windows 8 was released, there are a lot of problems with the OS, especially for gaming. SteamOS was supposedly Valve’s answer for gamers. However, the OS has stagnated, because of the upgrade to Windows 10!

SteamOS stagnates because of Windows 10!

Two years ago, it was hard not to mention gaming on PC with SteamOS, as the operating system seemed the answer to all gamers back then. Windows 8, when it was released, was so bugged and frustrating, especially for gaming. With Steam operating system, and the planned Steam Machines coming, with many manufacturers, such as Alienware, this platform looked promising back then. It was touted as potential competition for Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4.

Frank Azor, co-founder and general manager of Alienware, has shared that at the time, Microsoft has made some “questionable” approaches to gaming. Those approaches would make gaming on PC harder to access for gamers, so SteamOS came along. He, along with many, was also afraid to lose market of PC gaming to other competition platforms such as consoles, macOS or Android. The whole Steam ecosystem was born out of the market condition at the time.

However, after two years, SteamOS is slowly fading into irrelevancy. That is because of the introduction of Windows 10. Azor said that Microsoft has learned a lot with their mistakes, and made significant improvement on the Windows 8 (and 8.1) update. Windows 10 an be said to have focused more on gamers. Further improvements are in the works as well, such as streaming. Each update makes it easier to play games on Windows. Although some executions still need to be worked on, it is a vast improvement on Windows 8. Thus, the SteamOS cannot beat the most popular OS in the world.

SteamOS is gone, but it was necessary to improve Windows!

Although SteamOS was short-lived, but it was a necessary step for Microsoft to improve Windows. Now, Windows is getting better for gamers with each new update, and more are coming in the future!