Sometimes an excellent idea is late, or it does not arrive as early as it should, or its timing is not the most appropriate, and thus an incredible opportunity to prosper and become an established and lasting product is lost. Some of that may have happened with Valve y SteamOS, which arrived in December 2013 and is a kind of Debian-based distroAlthough the initial enthusiasm was logical and deserved, we have seen that over time it has faded a bit. And the causes for this are very varied, although it is interesting Frank Azor's point of view from Alienware.
What Azor believes is that Microsoft has been in serious trouble in the days of Windows 8 but that from having been close to hitting bottom they have been able to begin to listen to users. It's that Windows 8.1 fixed some issues from a user interface and performance point of view, and Windows 10 is -always according to Frank Azor- an excellent platform, quite well focused on the 'gamer' aspect. And although it is still far from perfect, it has improved enough to continue to place the operating system of the Redmond company as the main one for everything related to video games.
Regarding Valve, the words of Frank Azor have not been anything positive since the believe that the 'moment' of the Steam Machines has passed, or at least that it has lost strength and it may be difficult to regain it. And to assert this opinion, it confirms that although they continue to sell hundreds of units of Steam Machines, there is no longer the demand that there was two years ago, and this seems not to be a problem for them since for Azor, Alienware is fine with Windows 10.
Of course, this is an opinion that, although it has its weight, is also somewhat affected by subjectivity (and we know well that Valve continues to project a future for Linux), but it is still important to analyze the reasons for some issues, and it is that here in Linux Addicts we have already been commenting that SteamOS is not taking off as much as we fans of the great free operating system would have liked.