Re: Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-22 Thread f.holop
Kevin Chadwick - Wed, 22 April 2020 at 11:01:55
> 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.

offtopic for openbsd, sorry, but linux "has" many AAA titles:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton

-f
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Re: Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-22 Thread Kevin Chadwick
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 
> 
> 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  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.



Re: Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Joy
Switching full-time to OpenBSD this week. As long as there's a functional
mupen64plus I'm happy.

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020, 00:40 ,  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > Nikita Stepanov  wrote:
> > > Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?
> You might want to checkout
>
>  Information for
> https://openbsd.mirror.netelligent.ca/pub/OpenBSD//snapshots/packages/amd64/depotdownloader-2.3.3.tgz
>
> Comment:
> Steam depot downloader utilizing the SteamKit2 library
>
> Description:
> Steam depot downloader utilizing the SteamKit2 library. Supports
> .NET Core 2.0. Client to download apps and Workshop items from
> Steam.
>
> Maintainer: Thomas Frohwein 
>
> WWW: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader
>
> There's also the https://www.playonbsd.com/ website that has more
> information on gaming with BSD systems.
>
> Kevin Chadwick  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,
>
> Patrick Marchand
>
>


Re: Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-21 Thread mail
Hello,

> Nikita Stepanov  wrote:
> > Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?
You might want to checkout

https://openbsd.mirror.netelligent.ca/pub/OpenBSD//snapshots/packages/amd64/depotdownloader-2.3.3.tgz

Comment:
Steam depot downloader utilizing the SteamKit2 library

Description:
Steam depot downloader utilizing the SteamKit2 library. Supports
.NET Core 2.0. Client to download apps and Workshop items from
Steam.

Maintainer: Thomas Frohwein 

WWW: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader

There's also the https://www.playonbsd.com/ website that has more
information on gaming with BSD systems.

Kevin Chadwick  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,

Patrick Marchand



Re: Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Not sure but there wouldn't be much incentive anyway as there aren't many steam 
games that run on Linux!



Re: Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-11 Thread Umgeher Torgersen
mmm, no...

On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 04:41:14PM +0600, Nikita Stepanov wrote:
> Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?



Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?

2020-04-11 Thread Nikita Stepanov
Has anyone launched Steam for Linux on openbsd?