&gt; I was enthusiastic about the Linux-based Steam OS, that is, until I noticed that, for whatever reason, they MANDATED a 500GB disk partition, onto which one must load THEIR disk image. Really?<p>&gt; As if Linux users would accept such absurd demands.<p>Well, yeah, that&#x27;s SteamOS. Linux users should be installing the standalone Steam client within their existing distro, not a completely separate operating system.