Steam coming to Linux

[willbeonekenobi]

What do you guys (and gals) think about the fact that Steam is finally going to be officially supported in Linux.

http://g3ar.co.za/2012/04/26/steam-comi ... ew-months/
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... deln&num=1
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Linux ... 74983.html
http://techland.time.com/2012/04/25/ste ... windows-8/

[hamin_aus]

I think it will be wonderful for the 76 people who enjoy gaming on Linux.
Just imagine all the fun they will have playing Pong and Galager

[willbeonekenobi]

I'm sure that a lot more than 76 people play games on Linux. Me, if I can't get a game to run satisfactory on Linux through wine or natively (i.e running a Linux version of the game/program), then and only then I will play it in windows. In fact there are many windows games that seem to run flawlessly in wine. But some people (including me) would prefer a native solution as opposed to dual booting or running WINE.

[StarBound]

I think its good but remember that the games also needs to be supported for the linux OS. Only natively supported Linux game that I can remember is Unreal Tournament.

If nothing else we might see indie games popping up more on the linux side.

[D3PART3D]

This is probably part of Valve's plan to create an open platform to rival consoles in the living room. I'm more excited about that!

[hamin_aus]

Me, if I can't get a game to run satisfactory on Linux through wine or natively (i.e running a Linux version of the game/program), then and only then I will play it in windows.

You're nuttier than a squirrels turd, but at least you aren't an apple fanboi.

[StarBound]

Do you like Lunchbars jamin?

[hamin_aus]

I know you prefer a Chocolate Log

[StarBound]

The creamy center does it for me

[rustypup]

coupled with nvidia's recent manoeuvring on linux and how mickeysoft is hell-bent on plumbing the depths of stupidity when it comes to their newer flavours of desktop OS-ala-webtard this is just valve covering their bases...

big woop... they've had MAC support for a while now - this is hardly a major leap forward... :/

[StarBound]

Well if it coincides with the rumour about a steambox it does open them up from going either apple or microsoft. So even if you duel boot just for games with a steam only customized linux it might also force devs to drop windows live and all that.

[rustypup]

Beta access announced...

[StarBound]

So puppy, you installed Linux yet to trial it out?