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Steam is coming to Linux! 2,500 new Games !!!
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Steam is coming to Linux! 2,500 new Games !!!
Do you think Microsoft’s bet on Windows 8 will pay off? Valve’s Gabe Newell doesn’t – even going as far as to call the OS a ‘catastrophe for everyone in the PC space’.

Newell – a former Microsoft employee – shared his thoughts on the controversial OS as part of a question on gaming on Linux.

Speaking at the at the Casual Connect videogame conference in Seattle, USA, Newell said:

Quote:“The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don’t realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior.

We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. It’s a hedging strategy. I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.

I think we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

If that’s true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.”

Bias or Fear

‘Catastrophe’; top-tier PC OEMs exiting the market; destroyed margins… It’s all very dramatic sound stuff but with Newell having spent 8 years working on Windows it’s not easy to dismiss his remarks out of turn.

But there is, arguably, a bias at work in his comments.

Windows 8 introduces something hitherto unseen on the traditional PC desktop: the built-in, comes-by-default Windows Store – a potentially more accessible platform with wider reach than Valve’s own Steam client.

Coupled with the gaming credentials that Microsoft’s XBox LIVE integration brings, the Windows Store could pose a serious threat to Valve and their business model.

So Linux, with its free, and open ecosystem presents Gabe and his team with a plan b; an tapped revenue stream.

Earlier this month Valve formally announced their plans to bring Steam and top gaming title Left 4 Dead 2 to Ubuntu. Weeks prior to this Unity 3D, one of the most widely used gaming engines used by developers, revealed their plans for first-class Linux support.

So will the walls may be closing in around the garden of Windows, locking developers out, the open plains of Linux are starting to look ripe for harvest.


Finely this is just the think linux needs that it will become the number one operation system.
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Will definitely boost the number of people using Linux, though to be fair, knowledgable Linux peeps have had Steam for years thanks to the wine project.
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(August 2, 2012 at 1:11 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Will definitely boost the number of people using Linux, though to be fair, knowledgable Linux peeps have had Steam for years thanks to the wine project.

yes wine is pretty cool but if you use linux for gaming you should try playonlinux http://www.playonlinux.com/en/
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I hate to burst your bubble, but I don't think they will be porting their entire catalog over. We will be getting all the Valve games & a lot of indie games though.

It will open the door to companies porting linux games in the future though, which is a good thing.
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All of my yes.
I've tried Steam via PoL a couple times (Ubuntu) and aside from some limited success (Portal worked well, L4D was somewhat playable... this is running on a phenom 840 + Radeon HD6770, btw) it couldn't hold a candle to running Steam natively in windows.
Any idea what I might have been doing wrong? Is there some sort of video card driver-business you're supposed to do in wine?
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