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Steam Not Coming To Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the put-yer-pants-back-on dept.

dkd903 writes "A rumor has been going around for about four months that Valve was working on a Linux version of Steam and this had a lot of people in the Linux community very excited. But, Valve has now officially killed the rumor. And it is not what people wants to hear – there is no Linux version of Steam in development. Doug Lombardi, the Marketing VP of Valve Corporation, in an interview, has put an end to all the rumors by saying that they are not working on Steam for Linux right now."

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  1. Re:Wine by JonJ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Unless you have two monitors, in which case, wine is shit and steam runs like crap.

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    -- Linux user #369862
  2. Re:Not ready as a gaming platform by bsdaemonaut · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sorry, Wine is an emulator. The authors created the acronym in order to separate themselves from "full" machine virtualization. Technically speaking, Wine does more than provide a reimplementation of the Windows API, it emulates certain aspects of the windows kernel and translates signals and exceptions into the X equivalent and vice-versa. Don't believe all the marketing you hear.

  3. Your post akin to racism by Perl-Pusher · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Group them all into a stereotype and then begin to bash the group. The groups in this case Linux, and Christians, so what's your "ultimate solution"? Send them to the gas chambers?

  4. Re:Not ready as a gaming platform by LingNoi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're trolling because you're completely off topic, wrong and select quoting shit to try and support your ignorant view.

    TL;DR your links, see no need to waste my time with you. Thanks, bye.