{"id":11469,"date":"2013-10-23T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11469"},"modified":"2013-10-23T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T19:00:27","slug":"steamos-will-really-help-linux-on-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11469","title":{"rendered":"SteamOS will &#8220;really help&#8221; Linux on desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Should SteamOS gain traction among gamers and developers, that could force more hardware manufacturers to extend driver support beyond Windows<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcpro.co.uk\/news\/384934\/torvalds-steamos-will-really-help-linux-on-desktop\">Torvalds: SteamOS will &#8220;really help&#8221; Linux on desktop | News | PC Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.\u00a0 Getting NVIDIA graphic drivers working is a mind boggling exercise and must be redone with every kernel upgrade.\u00a0 This is one of the reasons I rarely upgrade Fedora &#8212; it&#8217;s too complicated getting video drivers working well enough to the point a video can be played and the desktop environment looks right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should SteamOS gain traction among gamers and developers, that could force more hardware manufacturers to extend driver support beyond Windows via Torvalds: SteamOS will &#8220;really help&#8221; Linux on desktop | News | PC Pro. Amen.\u00a0 Getting NVIDIA graphic drivers working &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11469\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[683,61,746],"class_list":["post-11469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","tag-desktop","tag-linux","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11470,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469\/revisions\/11470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}