Valve Finally Confirms Steam for Linux

[froggyboy604]

A few months ago, we reported that Steam for Linux would be coming in a matter of months. Back in April, Phoronix founder Michael Larabel claimed that Valve was working on a client that would run natively on Linux with "[n]o Wine library or anything else for "fake" support."

It looks like Larabel was right.

Yesterday, Valve officially announced Steam for Linux by launching the Valve Linux blog. The first post details a little bit of the history of why and how Steam finally implemented Linux support.

Apparently, the company was interested in porting Steam over to Linux because Source-based games already supported Linux servers. In 2011, a team was formed with the specific focus of converting Steam and Valve's popular zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 to Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions.

Tom's Hardware

I wonder what other games would be ported to Linux Steam Client.

 

[tetutato]

Oooh awesome. This would convert a lot of linux users to gamers

 

[Ghost]

Oh that's sweet! I have to get a new OS on my laptop and am thinking Linux. This definitely will lead me more towards Linux as I have been worried about gaming and such on it. Sweet, thanks for the share!

I had no idea !!
-Ghost

 

[tetutato]

Oh that's sweet! I have to get a new OS on my laptop and am thinking Linux. This definitely will lead me more towards Linux as I have been worried about gaming and such on it. Sweet, thanks for the share!

I had no idea !!
-Ghost

I wouldn't let this lead you towards linux for gaming...