Steam Not Coming To Linux

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."

Comments

Wine

[The MAZZTer]

Last I checked it ran pretty good in Wine (the Source engine too), so it's not a total loss.

Re:Valve != iD I suppose

[segin]

Developing for Linux is a lot like developing for OS X - pthreads, POSIX, OpenGL, and all. Besides, if they need their games ported to Linux, all they would have to do is contract Ryan Gordon.

Re:I'm glad

[Nursie]

Umm, yes, because so many enterprises have adopted Mac OS...

Insightful my arse. Linux is much bigger than Mac in the enterprise.

Re:Not ready as a gaming platform

[watermark]

I do dual boot, but I wouldn't have a need to dual boot if the games ran native in Linux. The only reason windows exists on my box is to run games, bringing the cost of games to $cost_of_games+$microsoft_tax. While I like free things as much as the next guy, I expect to pay for games (just not monthly, screw Blizzard.) Steam's DRM is unintrusive and very rarely causes me inconveniences.

Re:Not ready as a gaming platform

[Kryptonian Jor-El]

I think its less to do with some ideology about only using free software, but with the license under which ubuntu is packaged, where it can't automatically opt you into closed-source software