guix VS steam-runtime

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• One Game, by One Man, on Six Platforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2023

  > It turns out that unless the game is explicitly marked (by Valve reviewers), Steam Deck will use the Windows build + Proton even if a Linux version is available.

  I found this which sounds like it's not the default, but is in fact a result of compatibility testing:

  > If your game has gone through Steam Deck compatibility testing and the testers reported that the native Linux version didn't work (because of #579), then it might have been flagged to run the Windows binaries via Proton by default, instead of the native Linux version.

  per https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/issues/585

• Chromebook Plus: more performance and AI capabilities
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2023

  > Where is it written that steam-run will magically execute most binaries without patching them?

  Somewhere in here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

  :p

  But I do get what you're saying. Once Flakes are default, I hope people start a proper push to clear up documentation and streamline the development process. The end-result is amazing, and the perfect OS/packaging system for my needs. The means of getting there... need a lot of work. I'm along for the ride either way.

• i386 in Ubuntu Won't Die
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Aug 2023

  I think they have something a bit like a container built into Steam: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

• How do you build games for Steam Linux Runtime?
  3 projects | /r/godot | 14 Jun 2023

  this is for steamworks API, my understanding is there's a separate SDK for consuming Linux dependencies like glibc. Like Soldier runtime, Sniper runtime, and so on. Am I wrong in thinking these are two separate SDKs? here's the link to the other SDK I'm talking about: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

• Steam Desktop Client Update, Now with working hardware acceleration on linux!
  3 projects | /r/linux | 28 Apr 2023
• Wine 8.1
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2023

  > Game developers would be fine to target a single distro like Ubuntu 22.04.

  Valve has its own container-only Linux distribution, called "Soldier Runtime" (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime); especially for games distributed on Steam, it probably makes more sense to target that distribution instead of Ubuntu.

• 8 years ago, Linux's creator Linus Torvalds said, "Valve will save the Linux Desktop"
  2 projects | /r/linux | 22 Sep 2022

  They ended up creating a common runtime for game devs targetting Steam on Linux: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

• How does Steam on Flatpak work?
  3 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 17 Aug 2022

  Valve has a rather long document on the design of their runtime that goes into a hell of a lot of detail. The short answer is: graphics. It has to pass the host's graphics drivers through to the runtime, and a graphics driver built as part of a distro today may very well not run against the potentially ancient glibc living in the Steam runtime.

• Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Aug 2022

  FWIW, these days Valve tries to solve same problems with their steam runtime[0][1]. Still doesn't seem easy, but looks like almost workable solution.

      [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

• GLIBC update broke EAC for most games that use it
  10 projects | /r/linux | 5 Aug 2022

  Haha I don't mind the downvotes. I know I'm right. And they know it's true. This issue in particular is part of the many reasons Steam had to come up with the "Steam Linux Runtime", a concept completely absent on Windows. 🤡