Re: steam games

[Juanjo Marín <juanjomarin96 yahoo es>]

----- Mensaje original -----
> De: Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>
> Para: Tomasz Torcz <tomek pipebreaker pl>
> CC: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Enviado: Sábado 16 de febrero de 2013 11:33
> Asunto: Re: steam games
>
> 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).


If Valve games doesn't work with GNOME, gamers will switch to another 
environment. Valve is a big player in the game industry and it is 
expected new games will be released for Valve for Linux, so I think it is a 
good idea that Valve games (or games in general) can run in GNOME if possible.

There are some predictions that say the GNU/Linux will be an important gaming platform.

Just my two cents,

   -- Juanjo Marin