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Valve Puts An End To The Steam On Linux Rumors

• benologist 16y ago
  A summary of a summary wrapped in ads. How unique.
• ramine 16y ago
  The rumors started when Valve was looking for skilled Mac and Linux coders. Don't forget they denied the Mac client for a while too. That said, the Linux gaming market might be too small to be worth supporting :/
  • stackthat 16y ago
    > That said, the Linux gaming market might be too small to be worth supporting :/ I think that's exactly the reason, Mac market is much bigger than 3 years ago but we got at least 5 years more for a decent linux gaming market.
    • ramine 16y ago
      Yes, but the Linux market is pretty much a "winner takes all" one, since there's so little choice. Just like the Blizzard games sold so well on Mac a few years back.
• manvsmachine 16y ago
  Phoronix did seem to have some compelling evidence that Valve was at least toying with the idea. My guess is that Valve's statement doesn't mean that they aren't interested in the potential of Steam on Linux, but that they aren't actively developing for it and therefore do not want the public to have expectations for progress, release dates, etc. Companies do this all the time; one of the inside jokes of tech news seems to be that, if Apple or Sony take the time to officially state that they're not working on something, then they're probably working on it.