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Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012
An anonymous reader writes "Gabe Newell has responded to an email asking if Steam for Linux will be released this year with the simple answer 'Yes.' That means at some point in the next 7 months anyone running Linux will be able to download Steam and start playing a number of games, including at least one Valve title (most likely Left 4 Dead 2). After that the emphasis will be on game developers to start porting their Steam games over to Linux. 2012 could be a great year for gaming on Linux. The news follows the revelation in April that Valve was indeed working on a Linux port of its digital games service. At the time though, and as with all Valve software, we had no idea when it would get released."
i think unity is scaring more. Ubuntu had been a decent OS that people used to like the look of and were interested in then came the monstrosity that is unity it looks like a tablet but i cant touch it so that is useless. it is Linux but i cant customise it one of Linux's main selling point. granted gnome three is bad but the biggest mind-share Linux to the average joes is unity and it looks like a fisher price toy
---Saying gnome 3 is better than windows 8 not so much a compliment as it is damning with light praise.