greenmedic88 on 23 April 2010
| thelifatree said: you can already run steam via wine, and HL2 and L4D will work. This is obviously better. But, I doubt any third party developer that publishes via steam will make it work on linux. Granted it's a good direction, but not that big a deal unless something else happens. |
It's a bit like Steam OSX support although there are still more retail games that work with that OS.
In the short term, it means that Valve is doing full support of Linux with their own games which is an excellent start. Still not enough to get people to suddenly start using Linux, but for those who already do, it does mean being able to play their Valve games without re-booting, which is something I suppose.
When Ubisoft, EA and Activision do full Linux support for their games (which would set the standard for other publishers), then Linux will become a legitimate commercial platform for PC games.
