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Valve confirms their continued support for Linux gaming

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It seems my recent article about Valve removing the link to the Steam Machines page caused quite a stir, so Valve have now confirmed their continued support for Linux gaming.

Truthfully, I wasn't expecting my article to do anything, however I seem to have vastly underestimated just how many eyes there are on us now. Many larger tech and gaming sites picked it up from us like PC Gamer, Ars Technica (who amusingly called us a "fan site"), VG247 and so on. Many more sites then picked up the news from them (some claiming it was originally reported by others—oh well, can't win them all) and so it ended up as a much bigger story.

We've had quite a lot of emails and notifications about this, including a Valve rep emailing us directly to link us to this post by Pierre-Loup Griffais, where they state that the removal of the Steam Machines link was part of a "routine cleanup" where it was removed based on "user traffic".

They go on to state rather clearly, that their plans haven't really changed. They're still committed to making Linux a great place for games and applications, including those not using Steam. The most important part of their post, to me at least, is this:

At the same time, we're continuing to invest significant resources in supporting the Vulkan ecosystem, tooling and driver efforts. We also have other Linux initiatives in the pipe that we're not quite ready to talk about yet; SteamOS will continue to be our medium to deliver these improvements to our customers, and we think they will ultimately benefit the Linux ecosystem at large.

It's going to be very interesting to find out what these initiatives are that they're not currently ready to talk about, quite exciting.

It's really good to see a public comment from Valve on this, as I said constantly in the past that SteamOS and Steam Machines would never be an overnight success. Valve is clearly in it for the long game and so are we.

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Salvatos Apr 6, 2018
Quoting: BlackBloodRumDo we Linux users really want to be associated with geeks? :P

It'd turn into "Linux is an OS for geeks" which is more food for the Windows trolls. :D
Geeks are fashionable these days, so eh why not.
elbuglione Apr 6, 2018
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: elbuglioneJust take a look PlayStation.

So? Sony are infamously crooked. It only highlights my point.

Do not get me wrong.
Those are bad policies, but it seems that Youtubers and Screemers are only interested in this type of policies and advertisements.
While users are only interested in what the Youtubers and Screemers say.
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