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Valve excited for Steam on Linux, not so much for Windows 8

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/va ... -8-1077983

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Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:40 pm

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Re: Valve excited for Steam on Linux, not so much for Windows 8

Awesome news is awesome. I will never have need to run Windows ever again.

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Re: Valve excited for Steam on Linux, not so much for Windows 8

It's good news indeed.

As for Windows 8 - it doesn't actually exist in retail form yet. Any negative opinions are to my mind a little premature. I can confirm that Steam and all the games I've tried so far work on it actually better than they did on XP (I skipped Vista and 7).

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Re: Valve excited for Steam on Linux, not so much for Windows 8

Assuming that Steams customer base is 75%+ windows users (a guess) of various flavours and as thime goes on W8 will become a bigger percentage I cant really see them not supporting it

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Re: Valve excited for Steam on Linux, not so much for Windows 8


	hifidelity2 wrote: Assuming that Steams customer base is 75%+ windows users (a guess)

I'd guess it's significantly more than that frankly. If 5% (let alone 25%) of Steam users are on Mac I'd be amazed.

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	hifidelity2 wrote: Assuming that Steams customer base is 75%+ windows users (a guess) of various flavours and as thime goes on W8 will become a bigger percentage I cant really see them not supporting it

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