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Valve Rolls Out New Steam Client Stable Update with Promised Linux Changes, More

Valve rolls out new steam client stable update with promised linux changes more

Today Valve announced the availability of a new stable update of the Steam Client for all supported platforms, including the company’s SteamOS operating system for Steam Machines, as well as GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Bringing all the new features during the Beta stages of development, the new Steam Client update improves the interaction between the Steam runtime and your GNU/Linux distribution’s libraries. This is a huge and long-anticipated milestone for the Steam Client, which, unfortunately, did not work out-of-the-box on all Linux-based operating systems.

“Improved interactions between the Steam runtime and host distribution libraries, which should let Steam work out of the box with open-source graphics drivers on modern distributions. If using an older distribution or running into problems, use STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 to revert to previous behavior,” reads today’s announcement… (read more)

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