Valve's Dota 2 Game Can (Still) Run Natively On Mir

[MartinN]

I'm doubtful SteamOS will ever switch over to Mir, but i guess we'll find out. The thing is, I don't think they're going to want to bring in Unity to SteamOS, and without that they are likely looking at a port/maintenance work on Mir of an unknown size/scope. Unless Canonical commits to providing that support for them, I doubt it happens.

They could switch to Mir... and run the risk of pissing off (and on) developers. Developers are not the end users who fork over the majority of the cash that keeps a company like Valve afloat, but if history is any indication, pissing off developers en masse is a bad idea. He who fails to keep his thumb on the developers' pulse, ultimately pays a price.

It's all about perception - and the perception right now is that Mir (like 'uselessd' or 'devuan') should not exist and that Wayland should. You can (largely) thank Mr Shuttleworth for giving rise to this perception.

This man had it right.

[Awesomeness]

but valve does know which distro is the most popular one among its community using steam statistics
November 2014 most popular linux distro
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64 bit
35.09%
-5.72%

Running which desktop?

[Kano]

As SteamOS is based on Debian and not Ubuntu it is more or less impossible that Mir is an option for it. Thats an Ubuntu only pet.

[nanonyme]

As SteamOS is based on Debian and not Ubuntu it is more or less impossible that Mir is an option for it. Thats an Ubuntu only pet.

Citation needed for SteamOS being based on Debian. All concrete signs show Steam runtime is tied to Ubuntu for now

[Kano]

SteamOS is based on Debian wheezy recompiled against a newer libc6. What has that to do with any runtime?

[nanonyme]

SteamOS is based on Debian wheezy recompiled against a newer libc6. What has that to do with any runtime?

Steam games run on top of Steam runtime which is last I checked a collection of libs from an old Ubuntu release. IOW even if you ran it inside Debian, all relevant libs iirc including libc are from Ubuntu

[Kano]

Yes, and thats why you think SteamOS is Ubuntu based?

[Awesomeness]

Citation needed for SteamOS being based on Debian. All concrete signs show Steam runtime is tied to Ubuntu for now

https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=steamos%20debian%20site%3Awww.phoronix.com

Idiot.

[smitty3268]

Steam games run on top of Steam runtime which is last I checked a collection of libs from an old Ubuntu release. IOW even if you ran it inside Debian, all relevant libs iirc including libc are from Ubuntu

None of which has anything to do with Mir, Wayland, or whether SteamOS is based on Debian. SteamOS is an OS, not just some libraries that games run on.