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Valve on Linux Plans

[Oct 29, 2012, 8:11 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Ubuntu Vibes quotes (or paraphrases) Valve's Drew Bliss speaking at a Ubuntu Developer Summit in Denmark praising Linux as being amore viable gaming platform that Microsoft's just-released Windows 8. They summarize what they learned about Valve's Linux plans going forward in handy bulleted form:

Steam client is running nicely on Ubuntu and many developers have approached them with good game products.
Cooperation with Canonical has been good.
Ubuntu is preferred platform as it has a large user base and good community support with a strong company like Canonical behind it.
Linux has everything they need: good OpenGL, pulseaudio, OpenAL and input support.
New Source engine games will be available for Linux.
No firm time frame for Steam Linux release, but soon.
Copy protection is up to the game publishers.

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Re: Valve on Linux Plans

Oct 30, 2012, 06:03

Cutter

InBlack wrote on Oct 30, 2012, 05:42:
I will gladly make the switch to Linux if a Steam Client is released for it AND (this is a pretty BIG and) games come out which actually natively work on Linux.

Because if EA, Activision and a few other big name publishers continue to develop games exclusively for Windows (read DirectX) Valve is fucked no matter how hard they try to support Linux.

Gabe/Steam could easily fund that initiative themselves. Just make every game going forward on Steam Linux compatible.




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Comment [quote="Cutter"Oct 30, 2012, 06:03][quote="InBlack"Oct 30, 2012, 05:42]I will gladly make the switch to Linux if a Steam Client is released for it AND (this is a pretty BIG and) games come out which actually natively work on Linux. Because if EA, Activision and a few other big name publishers continue to develop games exclusively for Windows (read DirectX) Valve is fucked no matter how hard they try to support Linux. [/quote] Gabe/Steam could easily fund that initiative themselves. Just make every game going forward on Steam Linux compatible. [/quote]

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