<story><title>Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973484/valve-is-developing-steam-for-linux-says-michael-larabel-of-phoronix</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danssig</author><text>That is interesting news, but turn the OS market upside down?  You can&apos;t be serious.</text></item><item><author>qxcv</author><text>Looks like this is going to be reality, Phoronix just published the promised article[0] which basically claims that Valve have ported L4D/Source over to Linux already! Exciting news indeed, AAA-titles for Linux could turn the desktop OS market upside down.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;#38;item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&amp;#38;num=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;#38;item=valve...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>b0rsuk</author><text>&quot;I would use Linux only, but I like game X and Y.&quot; is incredibly common attitude among people who use dual boot. I&apos;m not making this up, the phrase pops up very often on various forums, especially in context of linux ports for newly announced games.&lt;p&gt;You don&apos;t see many complaints about GIMP being inadequate (and with the recent news that will be the end of GIMP complaints), or OpenOffice/LibreOffice incompatibility. Yes, once in a while someone has issues with very tricky/advanced spreadsheet or text document, but with minimum goodwill on the part of the creator it can be worked around.&lt;p&gt;Gaming is really the last bastion of Windows. I predict a surge in Linux popularity once Steam is ported, bypassing OSX. And once that happens you are going to see pressure to use it in workplace. Game developers will be releasing Linux versions much more often, like in the old days of OpenGL. Really, there are many people who &lt;i&gt;want&lt;/i&gt; to use Linux but hold out because of games.</text></comment>
<story><title>Valve is developing Steam for Linux, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973484/valve-is-developing-steam-for-linux-says-michael-larabel-of-phoronix</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>danssig</author><text>That is interesting news, but turn the OS market upside down?  You can&apos;t be serious.</text></item><item><author>qxcv</author><text>Looks like this is going to be reality, Phoronix just published the promised article[0] which basically claims that Valve have ported L4D/Source over to Linux already! Exciting news indeed, AAA-titles for Linux could turn the desktop OS market upside down.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;#38;item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&amp;#38;num=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;#38;item=valve...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onli</author><text>Why not? Missing games are the last and only &quot;serious&quot; issue of Linux. Well, maybe apart from Adobes product. But that&apos;s quite seriuos: Not being able to play normal and modern games is why I have Windows installed, and it&apos;s why i couldn&apos;t convince my nonexisting kids to use linux solely.&lt;p&gt;More Games means more user means more games (means better gpu-driver). It&apos;s a really old theory, and i think it&apos;s one that is sound, that linux somehow has to start the spirale and end the issue of having not enough user for games and therefor not enough games for users. Steam with some Valve-games could change that indeed.</text></comment>