oh dear lets keep things adult like and rational please, you need to stop this console vs pc kiddie thing.

dual boot would be a last resort for me, I tend to play my games in windowed mode so can access my others app quickly as needed. so dual booting for me would be an inconveniance.

for me to move into dual booting steamos would take for a lot of new games (which I want to play) to be steamos only, I think thats a while off yet and heavily dependent on steambox sales.

One thing valve havent taken into account is many people although they use a pc for gaming they dont necessarily use it as a dedicated gaming machine. I believe initially games will be emulated or streamed to the steambox from a pc, the native linux games will be further away if they happen.

In reply to a post by MrTAToad2:

I presume they are getting ready for 1040dp gaming and detailed graphics.

1080p is easy with 1 gig video memory. It depends how texture heavy a game is on the vram load.

eg. oblivion in its default unmodded state I can play at 1050p and it uses about 260meg of video memory.
However as you may know that game has many mods including texture mods, when I loaded some heavy texture mods onto it, it then saturated my at the time 512meg 8800GT which made it fallback to using normal ram (so slowed down) and I purchased my 460gtx to handle that as this has 1 gig of vram, heavy textures triples vram usage on oblivion from about 260meg to about 800meg.

The majority of games I have installed and played can handle 1050p/1080p fine with 1 gig of video ram at high detail settings. I think the amount of vram in the ps4 has painted a bit of a misleading picture on how much vram is needed. The speed of the vram and the gpu processing unit are bigger factors then the amount of vram. Of course with the extra vram dev's may then end up piling in extra textures simply "because they can" and then things could change.