Valve, the company behind the popular video game distribution platform Steam, has announced that the first round of their Linux-based Steam Machines are now available to be preorderd, and will be shipped to preorder customers starting October 16, with retailers to have them available shortly thereafter. These devices run Valve’s own SteamOS, a derivative of Debian, and are part of Valve’s push to bring more gamers to the PC market and to improve gaming on Linux. Valve has encouraged developers to port their games to Linux in recent years, and they have slowly grown the list of supported games to more than 1,000 titles. Even with this success, they have struggled to get widespread adoption of Linux from the largest development companies, and the release of these new devices should help improve this by trying to direct a greater portion of the $22 Billion consumers spend on video games a year towards the Linux ecosystem.
