[ale] Breaking News: Steam for Linux Now Available

[Scott Castaline]

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On 02/14/2013 07:31 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:

> 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.
I'm with you Jay, not a gamer never heard of them until I ran into an
article about their initial announcement of plans to port their engine
over to Linux, back around October. I did follow the progress of it
when they indicated a Feb release but only hinted that Valentine's day
would be the actual date. Today my oldest grandson came over and I had
the article that Robert had linked to on my monitor. When he saw that
he totally flipped. He's now ready to make the switch and get rid of
Mafia$haft. So I guess it's a good thing all said and done.




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