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So that thing that this very same site has insisted is in full development and is near ready to go... is going through a hiring round for devs to build the thin

So that thing that this very same site has insisted is in full development and is near ready to go... is going through a hiring round for devs to build the thing? Right. I'm so sick of these articles. Ever since the Mac version came out this site and other Linux focused blogs have insisted Steam for Linux is minutes away. Every single time they've been proven wrong or miss their timeframe. It probably is being built, but the last person who has legitimate up to date info on the project is Phoronix. They seem to just be making things up.

JDShu 14y ago
Phoronix seems to be playing a kind of Pascal's wager here. There is no way that it can be definitively proven that Steam will never arrive for the Linux desktop, but if it does then they can feel smug satisfaction that they knew all along and nobody believed them.
jiggy2011 14y ago
IIRC they actually went to valve's office and showed screenshots of source engined games running under Ubuntu natively. I wouldn't be surprised if they have it "90%" ready-to-go and just need some serious domains experts to do the last 90%. Not to mention for bugfixing , updates down the line as well as maybe porting some of their new tech (HL3 engine?) to Linux.