Steam for Linux captured on video, one step closer to reality

[froggyboy604]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_sLKHOHtug

Yesterday, Phoronix had encouraging news about the prospect of Steam for Linux: photo evidence of Left 4 Dead running on Ubuntu 11.10 with AMD Catalysts drivers. Today, the site followed up with video footage of that same scenario, posting a hastily shot clip to show that Valve is indeed making progress -- slow as it may be -- on porting the game engine to Linux. Got 14 seconds? Check out the video demo below the break.

Engadget

Cool, this could mean PC gamers will no longer be tied down paying hundreds of dollars for a Windows License Key just to play most popular games on the PC since Linux is free, and open source. Plus, Linux use less system resources like CPU, RAM, GPU, and hard drive then Windows which needs at least 2GB of RAM, 2GHz CPU, and a 80GB hard drive to run quickly while Linux can run at a decent speed with a 1 GHz CPU, 512MB or less RAM, and a 20GB hard drive.

 

[tetutato]

Most PC gamers don't have to bother with the concept of buying Windows considering most PCs come with them.

 

[froggyboy604]

Windows PC buyers still have to pay for a Windows license since every computer sold with Windows need a license which isn't free. It is just bundled with the cost of the computer system.

Linux computers slightly cheaper since the Linux operating system is free for everyone to use, so the buyer won't have to pay extra for an OS, so if Steam works on Linux people might buy more Linux PC to game on because of the 100 or more savings from not buying Windows.

This could also mean Steam may be secretly working on a modified version of Linux for a upcoming Steam console or PC which will be sold via Steam since I think Steam won't want to pay any licensing fees to Microsoft if they ever come out with hardware like how Google Chrome OS and Android uses a the Linux OS instead of a proprietary paid OS like Windows, or Mac which requires very expensive licensing fees, and modifying the OS is illegal or very hard.