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Valve To Work With More Distros To Improve Linux Gaming - skeeba - 06-27-2019
Quote:As a part of the ongoing Ubuntu-Steam spectacle, Valve has published a new update on their website. The Steam-maker company has reaffirmed its plans to continue to support Linux gamers and work with leading Linux distributions that are known to be popular among gamers.
Starting with Ubuntu, Valve has confirmed that it will continue to support Steam officially on Ubuntu. “It seems likely that we will be able to continue to officially support Steam on Ubuntu,” Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais wrote in the update. This statement comes after Ubuntu decided to ditch its plans to retire the 32-bit packages starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 release.
Explaining its earlier stance, Steam writes that the support for 32-bit libraries is also necessary for thousands of Steam games that only run on 32-bit architecture. While there are workarounds to ensure running such games in an additional compatibility layer, Valve doesn’t consider this viable for a regular user.
Link: https://fossbytes.com/valve-steam-work-with-linux-distros-gaming/
RE: Valve To Work With More Distros To Improve Linux Gaming - mothered - 06-28-2019
It's certainly positive news for gamers using the Linux platform.
RE: Valve To Work With More Distros To Improve Linux Gaming - skeeba - 06-28-2019
(06-28-2019, 05:59 AM)mothered Wrote: It's certainly positive news for gamers using the Linux platform.
I haven't been gaming in years... Nor do I really want to become a 'gamer' again. That said, I do miss playing strategy games and RPGs, and have considered buying a few titles to enjoy from time-to-time. Problem is, I really have distaste for using Windows and MacOS.
Valve's commitment to the FOSS community via its contribution of Proton (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/) will really help us Linux (and potentially FOSS BSD) users.
RE: Valve To Work With More Distros To Improve Linux Gaming - mothered - 06-29-2019
(06-28-2019, 01:12 PM)skeeba Wrote:(06-28-2019, 05:59 AM)mothered Wrote: It's certainly positive news for gamers using the Linux platform.
I haven't been gaming in years... Nor do I really want to become a 'gamer' again
Same here, except I've never been a gamer.
My friend (who's a huge gamer), tried to get me Into the scene back In 2002, and a few years after that. It's just not my cup of tea.
RE: Valve To Work With More Distros To Improve Linux Gaming - g712 - 06-30-2019
linux is so shit lmao
dont understand why those guys on quora said something like "linux is on 95% of todays pc" duh its fucking baremetal OS fucking retard