<story><title>SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines</title><url>https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/?t=1&amp;cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&amp;refsrc=email&amp;iid=349e1d3fdcdc46d493b14572c866208a&amp;uid=2862984859&amp;nid=244+272699400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I feel like Valve has certainly been putting effort into Linux, but not &lt;i&gt;serious&lt;/i&gt; effort.&lt;p&gt;They seem to be going low-moderate risk&amp;#x2F;investment.  Sure there&amp;#x27;s progress, but then the Wine devs are moving pretty steadily too at the moment.&lt;p&gt;If Valve wants to really be serious:&lt;p&gt;- Offer incentives to Devs to support Linux&amp;#x2F;Vulkan&lt;p&gt;- Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time&lt;p&gt;- develop and release new features for Linux first (maybe if GoG ever get the Galaxy client over to Linux Valve will get a kick in the pants to act...)&lt;p&gt;- Promote SteamOS and (maybe) Steam Machines, like at least some.  Show Steam Machines as an &amp;#x27;out-of-the-box Windows gaming replacement, not a console competitor.&lt;p&gt;- Fund Linux devs or take a lower cut from Linux releases&lt;p&gt;- Convince Adobe to release their suite on Linux!  Push for&amp;#x2F;fund official Unity and Unreal Engine Linux versions&lt;p&gt;- Offer the ability to natively launch games through Wine (and either use &amp;#x27;community&amp;#x27; environment files or require one exist, or have a link to WineHQ for help)&lt;p&gt;Be serious Valve, be genuine and get your flat structured &amp;#x27;follow the shiny thing&amp;#x27; company focused and determined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnIdiotOnTheNet</author><text>&amp;gt; Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time&lt;p&gt;A move like this would definitely not win Linux any friends, because as it turns out the Linux Desktop really isn&amp;#x27;t that great and you&amp;#x27;d just be causing a huge headache for a lot of people. The gamers would be annoyed at having to deal with Linux&amp;#x27;s bullshit, the Linux Destkop community would be annoyed at the huge influx of new users who don&amp;#x27;t think &amp;quot;try another distro&amp;quot; (especially after the third distro), or &amp;quot;write your own driver, it&amp;#x27;s open source!&amp;quot;, are acceptable solutions to their problems.&lt;p&gt;If Linux wants gamers there&amp;#x27;s a simple (note: simple != easy) thing they have to do: make their platform attractive to gamers and game developers. So far they can&amp;#x27;t manage either, the only reason gaming on Linux is even remotely viable is A) Valve coming in and saying &amp;quot;Ok, since there&amp;#x27;s no such thing as a standardized base system in Linux Desktop land, here&amp;#x27;s a standardized base system for Steam you can target&amp;quot;, and 2) the popularity of Android making engines like Unity and Unreal have Linux support, which allows devs to tack it on without too much extra effort.</text></comment>
<story><title>SteamOS, Linux, and Steam Machines</title><url>https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1696043806550421224/?t=1&amp;cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&amp;refsrc=email&amp;iid=349e1d3fdcdc46d493b14572c866208a&amp;uid=2862984859&amp;nid=244+272699400</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>headsoup</author><text>I feel like Valve has certainly been putting effort into Linux, but not &lt;i&gt;serious&lt;/i&gt; effort.&lt;p&gt;They seem to be going low-moderate risk&amp;#x2F;investment.  Sure there&amp;#x27;s progress, but then the Wine devs are moving pretty steadily too at the moment.&lt;p&gt;If Valve wants to really be serious:&lt;p&gt;- Offer incentives to Devs to support Linux&amp;#x2F;Vulkan&lt;p&gt;- Release a goddamn new game (HL3 - dreams) and make it Linux exclusive for a time&lt;p&gt;- develop and release new features for Linux first (maybe if GoG ever get the Galaxy client over to Linux Valve will get a kick in the pants to act...)&lt;p&gt;- Promote SteamOS and (maybe) Steam Machines, like at least some.  Show Steam Machines as an &amp;#x27;out-of-the-box Windows gaming replacement, not a console competitor.&lt;p&gt;- Fund Linux devs or take a lower cut from Linux releases&lt;p&gt;- Convince Adobe to release their suite on Linux!  Push for&amp;#x2F;fund official Unity and Unreal Engine Linux versions&lt;p&gt;- Offer the ability to natively launch games through Wine (and either use &amp;#x27;community&amp;#x27; environment files or require one exist, or have a link to WineHQ for help)&lt;p&gt;Be serious Valve, be genuine and get your flat structured &amp;#x27;follow the shiny thing&amp;#x27; company focused and determined.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitL</author><text>&amp;gt; but not &lt;i&gt;serious&lt;/i&gt; effort.&lt;p&gt;Dunno, my Steam Box runs games like Grid Autosport, Mad Max, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex etc. without a single issue, as fast as on Windows (quad i5 + NVidia), and I don&amp;#x27;t even notice I am on Linux. So thanks to Valve and Feral Interactive, I can slowly move away from Windows to Linux for all my computing needs, not just for programming, Deep Learning and blockchain. What else is missing?&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I can run a lot of software under Wine, like Adobe CS6 or MS Office, or even many games (it has gotten significantly better lately).</text></comment>