Valve launches SteamOS

Personally, I'm not really convinced. I think to really take the couch-surfing world by storm, you have to really hit the design right square on the head. If I look at the Steam client on windows/linux/mac, or at their iterative approaches to community moderation in Dota 2, they make earnest tries and do steadily try for improvement, but progress is often glacial, and flaws and glitchy feeling systems can go unresolved for many years.

I'd love for an open Linux system with users put first to take over a segment of "consumer computing" but I suspect the polish factor to be a very strong factor. The obvious question is whether the availability of all these games can attract an audience and make a florishing ecosystem despite that.