[ale] Breaking News: Steam for Linux Now Available

[Jay Lozier]

On 02/14/2013 03:33 PM, Robert Reese wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Just saw this today, which is good news for gamers!  Steam is now available on Linux, finally.  I'm not looking for a DRM flame war here; I hate Valve/Steam as much as anyone, but this is a fantastic opportunity to bring gamers over from Windows, especially since the god-awful Windows 8 is now the de facto OS on a new system.
I have no opinion on Valve/Steam; I am not much of a gamer. Overall this 
is good news for Linux because a major game vendor says Linux is worth 
supporting. As others follow the lead fewer people can not use the 
lament "I can not run X on Linux".

My understanding of hardcore gamers is they like very powerful, 
expensive rigs and the only reason most are tied to Windows is the 
availability of game titles on non-Windows rigs. M$ can not be very 
happy about this but my opinion is they did to themselves by not 
understanding the different device markets and each markets OS 
requirements with Windows 8.
>
> http://store.steampowered.com/news/9943/
>
> By the way, they have a number of Linux-ready titles on sale until the 21st.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert~
>
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An aside to the above, my marginally computer literate wife now 
primarily uses Linux. She primarily surfs, plays Facebook games, and 
reads email. Once she realized a Linux box could do these things she 
started using Linux regularly and found she liked its stability and 
generally much less aggravating nature.

Her primary use of Windows is a couple of applications that I have 
tested on Wine but this use is infrequent.

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Jay Lozier
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