Re: steam games

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 11:12 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:18:55AM +0000, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> > I think that it'd be more interesting to engage with Valve to know how
> > the GNOME platform could help steam get a better product. It is an
> > interesting ISV usecase.
>
>   But GNOME platform is not Steam's target.  Valve is targeting Unity,
> but virtue of making Ubuntu primary platform. GNOME is a niche for them.

1. I haven't contacted Valve directly it looks like they are playing
nice with other distros, which are not using Unity. For example they
change the license to make it distributable, remove apt-get dependency
autoinstall, post non-dpkg installer, give people who explicitly stated
they are not using Ubuntu early beta access etc. I haven't experienced
any problems with Valve games on Gentoo (I've experienced a few problems
with non-Valve games though and I needed to use Google).
2. To at least some extend Unity is based on GNOME (not WM and few other
pieces).

I don't think that should be argument against trying - in the worse case
we simply won't receive reply.

Best regards