[ale] Breaking News: Steam for Linux Now Available

[Richard Bronosky]

Unfortunately the gpu companies had their little trade secret war for so
long that msft was able to m make their DirectX, developer crutch, the
standard. It will be a while before companies can actually make games to
run on Linux.


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--Richard Bronosky
On Feb 14, 2013 3:44 PM, "Robert Reese" <ale at sixit.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> 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.
>
> http://store.steampowered.com/news/9943/
>
> By the way, they have a number of Linux-ready titles on sale until the
> 21st.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert~
>
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