I think Valve/Steam is also hedging theie bets in case of a future of a Microsoft controlled ecosystem heavily controlled app store that puts Valve/Steam either at a competitive disadvantage or even locks them out entirely. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Jay Lozier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com" target="_blank">jslozier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 02/14/2013 03:33 PM, Robert Reese wrote:<br>
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Hello all,<br>
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Just saw this today, which is good news for gamers! Steam is now available on Linux, finally. I'm not looking for a DRM flame war here; I hate Valve/Steam as much as anyone, but this is a fantastic opportunity to bring gamers over from Windows, especially since the god-awful Windows 8 is now the de facto OS on a new system.<br>
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I have no opinion on Valve/Steam; I am not much of a gamer. Overall this is good news for Linux because a major game vendor says Linux is worth supporting. As others follow the lead fewer people can not use the lament "I can not run X on Linux".<br>
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My understanding of hardcore gamers is they like very powerful, expensive rigs and the only reason most are tied to Windows is the availability of game titles on non-Windows rigs. M$ can not be very happy about this but my opinion is they did to themselves by not understanding the different device markets and each markets OS requirements with Windows 8.<div class="im">
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<a href="http://store.steampowered.com/news/9943/" target="_blank">http://store.steampowered.com/<u></u>news/9943/</a><br>
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By the way, they have a number of Linux-ready titles on sale until the 21st.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Robert~<br>
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An aside to the above, my marginally computer literate wife now primarily uses Linux. She primarily surfs, plays Facebook games, and reads email. Once she realized a Linux box could do these things she started using Linux regularly and found she liked its stability and generally much less aggravating nature.<br>
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Her primary use of Windows is a couple of applications that I have tested on Wine but this use is infrequent.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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