Valve Announces Steam Goes Beyond Gaming

[Prescience500]

Beyond gaming? Maybe this could be useful for people who always complain about not having enough professional apps on Linux.

Either way, does anyone know if Valve is offering their games in naitive 64-bit? Also, does anyone know if it will be compatible with Wayland without X (assuming you're using an open driver, of course)?

[AJSB]

Hardly if ever the Steam Client will be GPL'ed....DRM issues....

[jhansonxi]

...and ridiculously expensive.
This needs a looooooot of work sadly to be on par with something commercial.

Try DraftSight.

[bug!]

I am hoping that they will intergrate with apt in debian to easily detect updates and initilize them the way every one is used to (the actuall installation etc. can still happen in steam).

In my opinion the current package managers are awesome for servers, but they lack on the desktop space.

Ingo Molnar had a few good posts about this (and desktop Linux in general):

https://plus.google.com/109922199462633401279/posts/UDxdhK8xT63

https://plus.google.com/109922199462633401279/posts/HgdeFDfRzNe

https://plus.google.com/109922199462633401279/posts/VSdDJnscewS

Don't get irritated by the "App store" buzzword, it is nothing more than a package manager on steroids .

I really hope Valve releases their client under the GPL, then we could possibly see adoption of their "package management" on the Desktop space.
(if it meets the criteria, of course)

Well, lets wait and see where Valve takes Linux!

[mark45]

Are there any videos from the conference?

Siggraph's youtube channel seems useless.

[AJenbo]

I am hoping that they will intergrate with apt in debian to easily detect updates and initilize them the way every one is used to (the actuall installation etc. can still happen in steam).

[89c51]

Who need obsolete software when you can install something much more powerful? :-D

...and ridiculously expensive.

PS There is even modern free CAD software, but still unfinished (alpha stage).

This needs a looooooot of work sadly to be on par with something commercial.

[AJSB]

I'm not sure if it's correct to emply that this is related to LINUX.

They sure gonna expand in September 5 to include more than games....but no where in that News at Steam is an indication that will include LINUX...in fact, it NEVER mentions LINUX in that news....in the long run , *MAYBE* it will also include Professional apps native in Linux to plug-in the gap in the FLOSS offer but i'm not so sure that will happen that soon.

[kwahoo]

autocad for our valve linux distro anyone?

Who need obsolete software when you can install something much more powerful? :-D

PS There is even modern free CAD software, but still unfinished (alpha stage).

[89c51]

Photoshop and autocad for our valve linux distro anyone?

Adobe and Autodesk frankly don't give a fuck about linux.