Is the new $499 Mac Mini powerful enough for Steam gaming!! Is the new and just released 1.4 GHz Mac Mini powerful enough to play games on Steam. I'm assuming that Steam is 'online' and the all the computing and processing takes place on Steam's servers remotely, but I wanted to double check.

Back in the '90s, when you couldn't traverse through a college campus without the violent echoes of Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' accompanied by the anxious clicks of a Doom deathmatch, Microsoft reigned king over PC gaming. At the time, using an operating system other than MS-DOS was today's equivalent of using a controller to play a twitch shooter on a luxurious custom rig. Times have changed since 1993. We no longer have to worry about JNCOs coming back in style. Instead, we're welcomed with myriad options through which to play our games. With Linux finally emerging viable in the market, thanks in part to Valve's initiative, no longer is Windows, or MS-DOS for that matter, the indisputable king of PC gaming.

At least for this very moment. Taking on the king With Valve's Steam client having gained traction as the most popular pick for digital PC game marketplaces, it's worth noting that the company co-founder, Gabe Newell, as far back as 2013 that 'Linux and open source are the future of gaming.' In fact, the lord and savior himself called 'a catastrophe for PC gaming' little more than a year earlier. As of September 2015, only 1,500 Steam games were compatible natively with the entire range of Linux distributions. Meanwhile, Windows thrives on a 6,464 title count, more than four times as much as Linux, according to.

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That number doesn't even include the number of games exclusive to the. We can't be only ones who think this mascot is creepy, right? Many of the most-played Steam games, such as Dark Souls III, Grand Theft Auto V, and Rocket League still aren't available on Linux, and some may never be. It's obvious then why reported earlier this year that not only did Linux users account for less than 1 percent of Steam users at 0.91% in February 2016, but that was actually a dismal 0.04% decrease from the month prior. Newell said all the way back in 2012 that Valve wanted to make 2,500 games available on Steam for Linux. Even after launching its own Linux kernel specifically geared towards gaming, the company has still failed to deliver on that promise nearly four years later. SteamOS: holding Linux gaming back There are undoubtedly perks to using Linux.

Unlike Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS X, the open-source operating system is available in,, each marked with a unique set of benefits. Among these distros is Valve's own, a proposition that would ostensibly bring PC gaming to the living room. And, had it been more than an Ubuntu port stripped of everything but Steam's Big Picture Mode, maybe, just maybe, it would have stood a chance at normalizing PC gaming in your family's home entertainment center. Well, they looked cool in the box But, alas, there was nothing new to see there. Truth be told, SteamOS wasn't only limited in its functionality. Some hardware makers didn't even release their Steam Machines because of the sheer performance issues they were running into with Valve's custom operating system. Falcon Northwest, for example, told last year that SteamOS 'doesn't support some common functions that you'd expect from an operating system.'