Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community

Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by philipov on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:12PM (#37613881)

Do you remember before Steam won, there was also Stardock. They're still around now because they make Galactic Civilizations, but back in the day, they were also one of the early innovators in having their own store launcher for distributing their and others' games.

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by NikolaNovak on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:33PM (#37614161)

I still use stardock fences on my windows pc.

I also... Fondly?... Recall the time everybody was excited to have Xmas or star trek themes desktop with windowblinds.... Funny how not just fashion changes, but even need for fashion - virtually nobody customizes their windows desktop anymore :)

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by pdntspa on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:48PM (#37614349)

I remember that. It was a really good store, the first of its kind IIRC. Every so often I think about what happened to the games I owned on there?

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by gabereiser on Friday September 22, 2023 @02:09PM (#37615495)

Oh child, Stardock was originally a windows shell… Dressing to be modded like your Winamp skins.

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by Kuraj on Friday September 22, 2023 @05:43PM (#37618186)

It's kinda funny that there's a company out there that does both game publishing and popular desktop utilities

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by TheHappyOddish on Sunday September 24, 2023 @05:57PM (#37637573)

Before steam won there was also _WON_, and I'm still grumpy about losing their nice UI ;).

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