Steam Linux Beta Build Surfaces In Steam’s Database

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by glazemaster • 14 years ago

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YoukaiCountry• 14 years ago

The rumours of the Linux desktop's death have been greatly exaggerated.

I am cautiously optimistic that this will push people to make the leap.

w1ntermute3• 14 years ago

I hope that some gamers who want to squeeze every last drop out of their system will switch to improve performance. If enough games are ported (i.e., all the Source-based ones), this could very well happen. I know some hardcore gamers who primarily play one or two games, such as CSS and TF2.

jiggy20113• 14 years ago

It might be premature to think that. There has so far only been one set of benchmarks showing better performance and that was more to do with OpenGL vs Direct3D.

Unless games start taking more steps forwards in terms of graphical requirements I don't know if this is much of a concern anyway.

I have a ~3 year old PC and a ~2 year old mid level graphics card and I can still run most modern games with the graphic settings turned up pretty high.

IsTom• 14 years ago

Game devs are used to writing for Windows. I think it's a safe guess that there are some things that you need to know to port a Windows-specific game to Linux without losing any performance at all. They might not have that knowledge.

jiggy20113• 14 years ago

With the mobile-ification of the other platforms and third party apps being slowly reduced to $1.99 sandboxed toys Linux might shortly be the only desktop with any useful functionality remaining.

TazeTSchnitzel• 14 years ago

It will certainly keep me on the Linux platform.

nvmc• 14 years ago

1995: The year of the Linux desktop.

hwatson• 14 years ago

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mediocregopher• 14 years ago

That list of initial titles is pretty small, I hope it will soon include all the recent humble bundle games, since most (if not all) had linux ports as well as being steam-ified.

I know it won't do much in the way of making linux any more popular for the hardcore gamer, but it would at least make me happy

CrazedGeek• 14 years ago

That's not the list of Steam Linux games, it's the list of games added in the Steam database recently for any platform.

Steam Linux Beta Build Surfaces In Steam’s Database

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