On 2020-04-21 23:28, m...@patrickmarchand.com wrote: > Steam depot downloader utilizing the SteamKit2 library. Supports > .NET Core 2.0. Client to download apps and Workshop items from > Steam. > > Maintainer: Thomas Frohwein <t...@openbsd.org> > > WWW: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader > > There's also the https://www.playonbsd.com/ website that has more > information on gaming with BSD systems. >
Both very cool > Kevin Chadwick <m8il1i...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Not sure but there wouldn't be much incentive anyway as there >> aren't many steam games that run on Linux! > There's at least one, and that's enough to legitimize wanting access > to a game you've paid for. > > Have a nice day, ID and the company providing Steam (Valve) have always been very good to Linux/OpenSource, even releasing binaries for Linux imediately and sometimes open sourcing further down the line. CounterStrike, Doom, Quake 4, Quake Arena... I have even run EAs? Medal Of honour Airborne on Linux after copying half of Windows across for wine to run it and worked around various crashes. I even solely ran steam on Linux 5 or 10 years ago for a short time. I ended up with less performance, buying games that weren't so good and wasting my time. Perhaps things have improved. Many cross platform app creation tools support Linux these days, but leave BSD in the cold. The graphics libraries often require native building, as far as I can tell. IDs just released Doom Eternal says my hardware won't run it on Windows (yet they port it to ps4, grr). (Though the last Doom did have wildly over egged min specs. I guess to avoid complaints) So, I want to use the best tool for the job. Between OpenBSD and Windows. I have everything covered and in that time Microsofts attitude towards security has improved significantly. This also applies to work. In the embedded tool world Linux is hit and miss and I am not going to play around with Wine or reboot... for some little but essential tool. Getting the IDE to work on Linux also ended up costing time, though admittedly it used to somewhat on Windows too. Atleast those issues were ones that the billion dollar companies behind the chips, would be sure to be working on. There are plenty of great older games and steam workshop on OpenBSD may well be a useful tool, in that regard. I still plan to look into the BSD gaming community, time permitting.
