Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 released

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• lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can anyone eli5 what the steam runtime actually does? Ive seen scout and sniper on my system and i kinda accept that it has to be there but what does it do?

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    different distros have different environments. as in different libraries, versions and ways of accomplishing the same tasks. this is good for the linux ecosystem but bad for developers who want a predictable and stable set of tools they can build upon.

    this system addresses just that by providing this stable set of libraries and tools developers can target instead.

    eli5 it’s basically so your choice of distro doesn’t affect game compatibility.

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    • lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ok thanks! Is it related to proton or is it just for native games?

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  • Stampela@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You know Proton, and how the various versions have different compatibility? And some games might prefer a specific Proton? This stuff is a… “Linux base” that developers can target, so for example if I make a game tomorrow and target a specific version, it’ll run tomorrow like in 20 years, because no matter how the actual system will change, that “Linux base” I targeted will still be there.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can anyone eli5 what the steam runtime actually does?

    It’s the thing that actually runs your games.

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• Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m confused, I thought they used Arch nowadays?

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For SteamOS, yes. Steam Linux Runtime is a container environment for running games so they work across different distros.

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• leo85811nardo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m curious what kind of code name they are giving to 4.0 (3.0 is sniper, for example). Was it decided yet?

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seems they moved away from code names: gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/…/README.md?…

    v4 used to have the code name “medic”: gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/…/README.md?…

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    • kaleissin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ooh, Team Fortress 🤩

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    • leo85811nardo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Bummer. Sounds like they are afraid of not having codenames for 10.0 and on

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• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We’ve had 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0. Is that just spurious precision or are there .1 releases?

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