Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

Post by sigkill » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 2:22 PM UTC

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I'm quite amused by Valve's business decision. One may say that this is the logical next step but I'm smiling on the insides. I can't help but think that they're tryig to out-Microsoft MS. The embrace, extend, extinguish policy is obvious as day. They waited all these years to gain a significant foothold in the Windows segment. Now that they've got this, we could see them slowly expanding to Mac first, and today Linu…

> I'm really confident that the only people who use Windows will be (a) people who know nothing about computers and use whatever it came preinstalled with (b) at work since they're not allowed to format the computer (c) they need a very specific software that is not available on Linux or Mac Or OpenGL graphics programmers who find the state of drivers under Linux, while a lot better than years ago, still sub-optimal…

Post by jiggy2011 » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 2:51 PM UTC

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> I'm really confident that the only people who use Windows will be (a) people who know nothing about computers and use whatever it came preinstalled with (b) at work since they're not allowed to format the computer (c) they need a very specific software that is not available on Linux or Mac Or OpenGL graphics programmers who find the state of drivers under Linux, while a lot better than years ago, still sub-optimal…

I'm curious. What do the OpenGL graphic programmers do? Program games or software?

Post by freehunter » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

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Steam is also throwing a sale for the release of Steam for Linux: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/ ; ends February 21st, 18:00 GMT. Highly acclaimed "Team Fortress 2" is free to play: http://store.steampowered.com/app/440

Post by ncallaway » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

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> it will make life a lot better for CUDA programming too Well having done quite a bit of CUDA programming under Windows and Linux, i'm interested in knowing what you find lacking on Linux ? Performance wise i can report CUDA is just as fast on Linux as it is on windows. Regarding tool support, i actually prefer to work under Linux, not because tools are better per se, but because your usual Unix tool chain does wond…

> More generally, i've always found NVIDIA driver support for Linux to be very solid. I guess you haven't had any laptop with the Optimus technology (NVIDIA dedicated card + Intel integrated GPU). There no official NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux whatsoever :(

Post by cube13 » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

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The funny thing is that my experience with Quadro chips and gaming is that support is pretty much non-existant, even on Windows. My work laptop has a Quadro GPU, and I did try Starcraft 2 on it. SC2 wouldn't actually recognize the chipset, so I was set on very low settings.

Did you try using official Nvidia drivers [1] (as opposed to notebook creator supplied ones)? I have been using Quadros for long time (multiple generations, currently on Thinkpad with Quadro 2000M) and I never had any issue with games. Both compatibility and performance wise for me Quadros have been more or less equivalent to corresponding GeForce cards. I do however always try to use the latest drivers from Nvidia a…