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I just hope they release tarballs of executables or something, because targetting Ubuntu and Ubuntu alone is quite bad. They might say "We'll support other dist
by munchor 14y ago
I just hope they release tarballs of executables or something, because targetting Ubuntu and Ubuntu alone is quite bad. They might say "We'll support other distributions in the future". Yeah, I know that, you will support Fedora.
If you released tarballs (or even open sourced Steam and all your games {just kidding}), it would work, out of the box, on every single distribution.
- onli 14y agoI sure also hope they release tarballs. But supporting officially only one distribution makes sense. With proprietary games, they are in the land of consumer rights and consumer support. They can only say "we support X" if the software really runs on X, X being Ubuntu here. If it doesn't run, the consumer has the right to get his money back (instead of getting it back out of goodwill). If another distro patches a driver and thus L4D2 runs worse or not at all (or something like wayland changes the infrstructure more than we expect and another disto moves first), this would be an issue for them without that official focus on Ubuntu.
- jiggy2011 14y agoHopefully they won't actively try and prevent people from running it on other distros though, providing they find a way to do so. If you're a die hard Arch/Gentoo/Slackware user you're probably used to not having much in the way of commercial support anyway.
- fromhet 14y agoIn a worst-case scenario, it would not be all to hard to write a script to extract the content of a debian package into a tarball.
- lucian1900 14y agoIf it'll be anything like the windows version of Steam, it'll likely manage games in parallel with the package manager, thus about as distro-specific as tarballs. As long as Steam itself is packaged as .deb, .rpm and tarball, it'll probably work as well as other linux games.