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Linux Steam Plans Confirmed

[Apr 25, 2012, 10:04 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

After years of clues, rumors, and speculation, Phoronix has a concrete confirmation from Valve of plans for a native Linux client for Steam, Valve's content delivery service. And it just keeps getting better for the site and its Linux-loving audience, as they say: "Valve does have some great plans for Linux beyond just shipping the client versions of Steam and their popular games on the Source Engine." Without getting too far into specifics, the author repeatedly effuses over Valve's embrace of Linux surpassing the commitment of other developers. Those prone to speculation will recall the recently confirmed Valve hardware rumors, as it seems to bear noting that a specialized Linux client is one of the favored ways to power proprietary hardware systems these days. Here's a bit on Valve's strong commitment to the power of the penguin:

Valve and Gabe Newell's interest in Linux goes beyond what would be expected of any normal game company, but Valve is certainly a unique beast. Listening to Gabe Newell talk about Linux for hours made me wonder whether he was a former ex-Microsoft employee (where he actually did work in his pre-Valve days in the 90's) or the director of the Linux Foundation. His level of Linux interest and commitment was incredible while his negativity for Windows 8 and the future of Microsoft was stunning. In fact, as soon as I return to my office this weekend I plan to try out Windows 8 simply to see if it's as bad as Gabe states and because he's curious about my opinions of this latest Microsoft operating system.

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Re: Linux Steam Plans Confirmed

Apr 25, 2012, 21:40

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Enahs wrote on Apr 25, 2012, 20:05: The interface on Windows Phone is just absolutely amazing and a joy to use. Windows 8 is based around that design. I do not know how well it will work on a computer, but Microsoft has invested millions, possibly even billions of dollars into this new interface essentially. Perhaps they know a little of what they are doing? I know how well... EXACTLY THE SAME as on the phone. But a phone doesn't have a mouse and keyboard and nice big monitor. Its kinda silly to dumb it down to match the limitations of the phone. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. The more you use MS stuff and closer you get to them, you realize that often they do NOT know what they are doing. They arbitrarily remove or downgrade things. Sometimes if they don't want to bother fixing a bug (even if the community tells them exactly what needs to be fixed and its an absurdly simple thing to fix) they will just remove an entire feature. They change things just to be different, sometimes its a good thing, sometimes its not. Do you know the most common reason I saw people give for upgrading to vista? The GUI. MS isn't stupid, they know this. They know that there will be masses of people who want the new windows just because its a new GUI, and since it matches their phone, they will like it all the more. Regardless of what the tech savy think. I have repeatedly, very often, given MS the benefit of the doubt and tried their latest thing. Often its to my detriment. I don't have this attitude from an automatic unthinking bias, its from long experience of using MS products, and seeing what they do. But hey, go ahead and give it a go, there's a preview version you can get for free right now.

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