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Guru3D.com » News » Valve to explain 'hardware opportunities' for Linux

Valve to explain 'hardware opportunities' for Linux

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/18/2013 08:28 AM | source: | 26 comment(s)
Valve to explain 'hardware opportunities' for Linux

Valve's Gabe Newell likes Linux. A lot. In spite of the operating system representing less-than-one percent share by every metric used by Valve, Newell believes that Linux will play a large role in the future of PC gaming--so much so that his company is invested in making a Linux-based Steambox. In addition to releasing games on the OS, Valve is showing their support of Linux by contributing to the LLDB debugger project, because developers frequently cite the need for a debugger to make Linux a better development platform. 

Newell still believes Windows 8 is a catastrophe, pointing out that PC sales have experienced year-over-year declines. However, Steam sales have increased 76 percent--suggesting Valve is doing something right.

Valve brought Steam to Linux in February, and the platform now has 198 games. Newell has previously promised to unveil a Linux-based "Steam box" to compete against living room gaming consoles sometime this year, and his company has updated the Steam software to work better on TVs. While he didn't specifically mention the Steam box today, Newell hinted at an announcement next week.

"Next week we're going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for bringing Linux into the living room," Newell said.

Getting games to work on Linux has its challenges. If not implemented right, "Just compile it yourself" could be the inconvenient solution to the problem of installing games and applying updates, he said. However, Valve worked through these problems in bringing Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux, hopefully showing the way to other developers, he said.

Bringing Steam to Linux "was a signal for our development partners that we really were serious about this Linux thing we were talking about," Newell said.







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dsbig
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#4657277 Posted on: 09/18/2013 01:14 PM
lol

Im not new to the linux thing but...

install ubuntu yesterday and installed steam.

which I installed 64bit ubuntu and steam wouldnt run because it was missing 32bit librarys. so almost hour later because it was using slow mirrors to download. I was able to get steam running, only to find out only 10 of my 300 on linux.


it more work to get steam running on linux then windows

trentbg
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#4657291 Posted on: 09/18/2013 01:39 PM
He better explain where the hell is HL 3.

kanej2007
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#4657294 Posted on: 09/18/2013 01:45 PM
He better explain where the hell is HL 3.


He's been busy:



Asgardi
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#4657300 Posted on: 09/18/2013 01:58 PM
Yeah...

He better explain where the hell is HL 3.


I kind of understand they have to seek alternatives to Windows because MS is starting to compete with them with W8 store. Even if Steam is currently light years ahead, desktop is going away eventually and that would basically kill Valve's current business model. And there are no other options really than Linux. But come on... W8 has already passed Linux market share over 5 times (8 % vs 1,5 %). And worst of all, Linux market share has stayed there for like 10 years.

As I said, I kind of understand their investments in Linux but I would rather see them spending their resources in games again. They really made great games not too long ago.

Veeshush
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#4657306 Posted on: 09/18/2013 02:11 PM
Linux doesn't need your Steam, Gabe. Linux distros update their packages just fine on their own.


It just needs the games.

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