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Steam OS - It huffed and it puffed... but it's nothing more than hot air!

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A few years ago when I first heard about Steam OS I was intrigued, did this mean gaming on Linux would be on par with Windows? Would Steam OS be the ultimate operating system for gamers? Fast forward to today and Steam OS has been around for over three years, and what's interesting about that is the web does not seem to be talking about it. So it's time to find out why. http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/ After following the Steam OS  instructions from their site, I created my Steam OS USB installation media and rebooted my PC. Upon boot there was the option of an automatic install and expert install. I went for the automatic install although there were problems formatting my hard drive. It didn't work, so I rebooted and chose expert mode. Despite the name expert mode, all I did was click next until I came to the formatting hard drive screen. My hard drive had Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed and this was causing a conflict with the automatic...