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Valve is anticipating such move in a near future and investing in gaming on Linux.

• immigrantsheep 6y ago
  AFAIK Valve already tried the whole Linux as a gaming platform thing and gave up completely a few months ago.
  • brnt 6y ago
    Where did you get this silly idea? Linux gaming has never been stronger than now, thanks to Steam's Proton.
    • dvtrn 6y ago
      Where did you get this silly idea? Valve's decision to no longer support Ubuntu as a first-class distribution, a year ago, probably. Though that's just one distribution, not Linux as a whole. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/steam-announces-that-its-dropping-support-for-ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/steam-announces-that-its...
      • kllrnohj 6y ago
        Worth noting that that's obsolete. Canonical has since walked back on 32-bit apps being available in Ubuntu, and as a result Valve as brought Steam back to Ubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/valve-confrims-steam-linux-ubuntu-support https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/valve-confrims-steam-lin...
        • dvtrn 6y ago
          Oh would you look at that! Thanks for the correction
    • paxys 6y ago
      The fact that they are starting to put resources behind Proton instead of Ubuntu/SteamOS is in fact a clear indication that they have given up on games written natively for Linux.
      • brnt 6y ago
        Windows as a library, what's not to love? This gamer cares whether the games run, not about nativity.
      • three_seagrass 6y ago
        That's still Steam bringing games to Linux though, right? Whether or not it's native or wine doesn't change the fact that Steam is pushing into Linux. They've shifted the responsibility from pushing linux support on the developer to providing linux support themselves.
      • p1necone 6y ago
        Linux needs to attract gamers before game devs will widely support Linux. It's a chicken and egg problem that proton neatly sidesteps. Valve will have a much easier time improving proton than they will forcing devs to make Linux compatible games for little monetary reward.
      • m-p-3 6y ago
        In order to attract more developers to develop on Linux or at least make it work through Proton, Valve is taking the path of least resistance. Proton seems to be a good step toward that end.
  • the_af 6y ago
    Gave up completely? Well, that sucks if true. Plenty of awesome Linux games on Steam. Got any links?
  • recklesstodd 6y ago
    Valve is actively contributing to Proton and the number of supported games increases continuously. https://www.protondb.com/ https://www.protondb.com/ tracks the playability of each game in Linux.
  • winter_blue 6y ago
    This is completely false. They've been contributing massively to the gaming scene on Linux, especially with Proton – a more fine-tuned version of Wine, that makes playing Windows games on Linux seamless and easy.
    • m4rtink 6y ago
      And all these improvements trickle down to the respective upstream prkjects and default version. For example Fedora 33 should use dxvk for directx games by default, all at least partially thanks to the relenteless work of Valve. :-)
  • duskwuff 6y ago
    I'm not convinced it was ever something they wholeheartedly supported -- I suspect it was more of a hedge than anything. The Steam Machine hardware project, which was their big Linux push, wound down around 2016.
• bsder 6y ago
  Valve is also funding the Vulkan shim on OS X so they can sidestep Metal.