Canonical Recently Visited Valve To Talk About Ubuntu

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Canonical Recently Visited Valve To Talk About Ubuntu

Canonical and Valve are warming up to each other after a recent visit to the Valve headquarters in Bellevue...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE3MTk

[entropy]

Meh, I really hope we will be easily able to run Steam and the games on other distributions as well.

[Compholio]

If they tie Steam into the package manager so that updates to Steam games show up in the system updater then that would make me very happy

[FutureSuture]

Surely this has been going on for longer than just recently, right?

[zhark]

If they tie Steam into the package manager so that updates to Steam games show up in the system updater then that would make me very happy

I don't get why this should be done any differently than on Windows? Steam updating itself without dependency on a third party package manager contributes to it beeing distro agnostic.

[disgrace]

Ubuntu is full retards. I hope steam will run on my god blessed Gentoo distribution.

[AJenbo]

I don't get why this should be done any differently than on Windows? Steam updating itself without dependency on a third party package manager contributes to it beeing distro agnostic.

It ties in to the windows installer, games can be removed using either windows control panel or steam it self. Windows just doesn't have a good way to update installed software.

[Compholio]

I don't get why this should be done any differently than on Windows? Steam updating itself without dependency on a third party package manager contributes to it beeing distro agnostic.

Because Windows doesn't provide a service for updating 3rd party software. This feature would provide a level of convenience for Linux users that would make Steam far superior under Linux when compared to other platforms. They wouldn't even need to build "real" packages to provide this benefit, just generic "launch steam and update" packages (with appropriate version information). At that level that's something that is easy to run through alien and provide repositories for the vast majority of popular distros. If you don't run a supported distro then that's fine, but if you do then you get a nice little update reminder when Steam needs to update your games.

[nightmarex]

Ubuntu is full retards. I hope steam will run on my god blessed Gentoo distribution.

=)

I don't want Ubuntu coders there that's for sure. Linux FWA(Fhack Windows & Apple)!

If there isn't and package manager tie-ins. Your God blessed Gentoo(A very fast penguin indeed) box will run it with some effort.

If Ubuntu does get package manager dependencies Valve would be as good as dead to Linux.

[LostinSpacetime]

It is indeed an exiting time and a big opportunity for Ubuntu and Linux. However, the performance regressions in 11.10 -> 12.04 -> 12.10 are disastrous as described in this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...iz/+bug/964788. There are many similar bugs affecting users mostly with nVidia hardware (https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1042167, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ty/+bug/988079, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...y/+bug/1005074, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ty/+bug/987304, ..) which is ironical since gaming is the main reason to choose nVidia. I imagine most people will just try one of the new, more demanding games and experiencing bad performance will be thinking it's the game's fault or linux's, while without compiz/unity everything would work just fine.