Valve Steam on Linux (no wine)

aln said:
Not sure phoronix provides any info beyond "it's going to happen, really, I promise" which has been going on for the past 2 years, but valve are at least talking about linux in public so it looks very plausible. I for one would be happy to drop my windows partition.
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Dito! The pictures look promising, someone is obviously doing some debugging :D

Not surprised about Windows 8 either, brace yourselves,here comes another Vista...
 
Dunks said:
I'm assuming games will still need to be compatible with Wine though?

Still a nice step forward though!
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Nope, Wine free! Not a single shred of wine is incorporated in the native client. The game manufacturers have to play ball though otherwise some games will never work out of the box.

iNPUt said:
Phoronix is not a reliable source, they said the same thing 2 years ago.

The thing with Valve is that their employees work on what ever they want, I hope and pray that we will get a linux steam client and source engine, but be in for a wait.
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These things don't happen overnight! For such a small userbase (Linux Gamers) Valve is being very nice! IMO + maximizing monies. Clearly, from the images Valve is still testing the client.

There is no better source then Phoronix when it comes to breaking news, please do point out a more reliable source if you have one. Clearly valve recruited linux developer through phoronix for a reason, and clearly they choose valve for the interview
 
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|Thomas| said:
Well they don't really have to play ball. A lot of big titles on steam didn't make it to the mac client, and sadly I think the same will happen with the linux one.

It's a step in the right direction though :)
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Yea I know exactly what you mean :( , sux though.

Still think Ubuntu (possibly mint) still have a massive role to play in pulling in more users. Well two things I'm excited about:

Windows XP coming to end of life, no support
Windows 8 disgruntled users

And Ubuntu 12 looking so polished, it's come a long way since 10

Windows 7 users appear happy though ... (overall that is)
 
Diss said:
i'll never buy windows again
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The only time I actually pay for any M$ fud is when it comes shipped as OEM unfortunately, with a laptop. It's a different story for Games, that's the only place I actually spend money, though I know secretly some of that money goes toward DirectX licensing etc...

I think the client is more like a launcher, it's the studios that have to pull their fingers out! As mentioned there is no reason why games such as CIV can't run on Linux since they run native on MAC.
 
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