freebsd can run with linux steam??
also how is linux the same? like the kernel? the gnu/linux stuff? the distros themselves?
It has kernel-level compatibility with Linux binaries with decent success, and can also run Linux jails, which are full installations of siatroa. One command can install Debian, for example.
You can then set it to use a native BSD proton binary, and run all your games with that, and boom.
Granted, you need to do all the classic Unix stuff of setting users to groups so they can use video and audio hardware and so on, but I prefer that to fekking SystemD. "I would like to do this. Oh, the system doesn't want me to. Shit."
Why is my init system handling user environment variables? Why is that allowed, even?! Why is that possible without weird hacks?!?!
Sorry, De Icaza can suck my nuts with his Windows worship.
Make your own OS, you freak. Go work on ReactOS.
My next machine will be an MPD weird high-power netbook with discrete AMD graphics. Dual boot FreeBSD and SteamOS. The latter just as "just in case" a backup, with very relatively little drive space allocated.
There's still some fiddly stuff with wireless support in BSD, so game storage might end up on an ext3 partition, so I can mount it under BSD and then any writes to it would only be installation and games that don't write to the compat dirs, like assholes.
Of course, I need to fix up and kit out the van I just moved into, first, but I can plan this out, because BSD wants to stay Unix and I have no interest trying to fuck around with doing computing under Linux. Linux is a games platform.