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[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Valve sucks with the "we're not rewriting this for 64 bit because there's no benefit" stance. It's a pain in the ass to use on Linux because you have to have the 32 bit counterpart of everything it uses alongside the 64 bit counterpart that literally everything else uses. You would think they would finally decide to rewrite it since they're a major Linux contributor, and their handheld runs Linux.

[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago

Fortunately, using a neat tool called Whisky, I’m able to install the Windows Steam client, from which I can download and play the Portal games, because they’re proper. But that’s M1/2 only.

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Since you mentioned you've never used Linux, you may find it amusing that similar windows compatibility software exists for Linux and is called Wine. Whisky and Wine.

[-] elint@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Whisky is just a Wine wrapper. It's still Wine under the hood.

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