Its time for a change! Its time for Linux!

[Caraway]

not lies you make edits to any open source code you have to release it.
every linux distro is made by different companys they would have to go by there rules also, and different disrtos have different repositories so one driver you need might not be on another distro. you can run DX on linux using wine & getting the right .dll's
no linux is managed other then red hat. SE having issues debugging PS3 & windows version you think they want to mess with the 500 versions of linux? or force you to use one distro.

DX is proprietary its SDK is complete, openGL is opensource and you have to hunt down libarys and files. consoles SDK's are also proprietary & managed. you'll see a macOSX version before you see a linux version.

Actually, you only have to keep open source the portions of your code that make use or modify/extend existing GPL items.

That said, you can definitely release a work entirely closed source on Linux (there are a number of these alread) and OpenGL allows you to do that as well so there'd be no reason that if this game were to be ported to OpenGL (it is a DirectX game, despite the poster above saying they didn't notice any runtimes installed) that it couldn't be moved to a Linux platform with a bit of work.

I'm personally watching the adoption of the whole SteamOS thing to see how that goes. If that picks up, developers vary well may decide to start investing in Linux development but the whole concept is very chicken vs egg

[cotti]

The Curious Case of Sublime Text.

Meet Sublime Text.

It is a text editor, with some nice features for code editing. It is also proprietary and commercial - not only you have to buy it, the source is closed and you can't contribute to it besides bug reports.

It works on Windows, Mac OS and "Linux".

How is this possible?

[Magis]

That said, you can definitely release a work entirely closed source on Linux (there are a number of these alread) and OpenGL allows you to do that as well so there'd be no reason that if this game were to be ported to OpenGL (it is a DirectX game, despite the poster above saying they didn't notice any runtimes installed) that it couldn't be moved to a Linux platform with a bit of work.

That was a random guess, on little research. Doing a bit of Googling it seems it's DirectX 9c.

[Pseudopsia]

I noticed this today. Value has made their Direct3D to OpenGl translation layer source available. ToGL

It supports a limited subset of Direct3D 9.0c. I wonder if this can make SE's life easier if they ever decide to make a Linux client.

Source: Valve open-sources its DirectX to OpenGL translation software: Here come the SteamOS and Linux games?

[Psychojau]

Will Steam be able to afford it?

Every item sold on steam (games, cards, wallpapers, skins in some games,etc...) is a source of money for Valve ! So YES, an Os with Steam as a user interface will make them earn money and they will be able to pay the low cost this.

And the fact is that using an os that you can customize to your needs, based on good secured, tested components is GREAT ! Just try it ! Try Ubuntu for exemple ! Try to tweak it, it's the easiest GNU/Linux distribution and it's well documented.
You will soon understand why we want to play our games with this sort of OS !

[Delmontyb]

I support this idea.