As some of you may know, the Steam game distribution system has just been released as stable for OS X. This made me happy as I can now play such gems as Portal on my Mac without having to mess with bootcamp. Portal is free until May 24th by the way.
Since gaming has long been the holy grail of Linux FUDsters as to what is holding their platform back, I present, for your entertainment, OSNew’s Thom Holwerda shouting from the rooftops that Steam support for Linux is here.
“What’s that?” you say, “But I thought Steam was released for OS X?”
Well, you see it was it is only released for OS X. However, citing a Phoronix article from a while back where someone took apart the beta and found a minute reference to an internal build someone may or may not have been working on. Clearly, since OS X uses OpenGL and so does Linux the Steam client and Source engine are mere days away from being released from Linux. Nevermind the fact that in addition to putting pretty pictures on the screen in a game one also must handle input and make pleasing sounds, both of which happen in completely different ways on OS X and Linux. All this means is that Steam and the Source engine are now designed to be cross platform.
Still, I’m sure that the Linux Youth will jump for joy at the fact that there is a random internal project potentially targeting some version of Linux. Slashdot has already picked up the same story with an only slightly less misleading headline.
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Steam is really coming to Linux. I’ve seen screenshots of it, plus the descriptors of it.
Secondly, it’s clear for a long time that Source would come to Mac and Linux at some point, since Postal 3 was confirmed for those platforms.
Furthermore I believe they really made it official by now.
Nevertheless, that’s not the point. Linux Youth is jizzing their pants because of it. I’ve seen people to claim how now the 1% barrier will fall. There’s just one thing I wonder, how come that the gaming community is de facto just a small percent amount of actual PC users… Oh wait all Linux Youth are 13-yr old kids who don’t use their PC for nothing but dual booting Ubuntu and Windoz and think they’re some kind of epic IT pro because they can clean viruses with AdAware and Avira and use an OS that is totally virus immune. Right so they can spend the 90% of the time they play games on Windows on Linux! Now if that doesn’t totally make Linux cross the 1% border, I don’t know.
I’ve seen that too, they specified they will bring it to Linux at some point in the future. We’ll see which version it supports and how much howling there is when it doesn’t support esoteric stuff like Puppy or DSL.
Valve doesn’t know the rats nest they are getting themselves into, but they’ll learn, they always learn.
id learned.
Epic learned.
They’ll learn too.
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