Valve Suggesting Windows Users to Try Ubuntu and Steam Linux Beta

Re:Valve Suggesting Windows Users to Try Ubuntu and Steam Li... by bstar77 on Monday January 21, 2013 @12:36AM (#5090051)

I noticed this weekend that some of my Steam games are now supported on Linux (Crusader Kings 2 from Paradox to be specific). Despite being out of the Ubuntu desktop scene for a while, I can't begin to say how much joy this brings me.

I'd love to know what cross platform tools Paradox may be using to achieve this.

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Re:Valve Suggesting Windows Users to Try Ubuntu and Steam Li... by chii on Monday January 21, 2013 @01:30AM (#5090239)

i would like to hope that valve (via the associated steamworks related SDK they provide) creates a set of tools that make porting to linux a breeze for developers. I don't care if they have to target a specific distribution of linux, and or only support a specific set of video cards. I m sure if they take the first step, build the momentum, they can get a snowball effect going.

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