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Valve put up a new Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 with a move towards 64-bit (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 7 months ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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To ensure games run well on Linux either via Native Linux builds or Windows games with Proton, part of the magic is in the Steam Linux Runtime. A new version of it, the Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 was recently put up with some pretty big changes.

What's the point of it? It ensures Steam and games run through Steam on Linux work properly across all the many different Linux distributions. Another secret Valve sauce for Linux. Well, not secret at all but you get my meaning I'm sure.

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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

yeah, many people had that problem. it happened around the same time the Arc Raiders servers went offline. a buddy of mine couldn't launch Steam, and when he did, it wouldn't load his friends list. my theory is that the 350,000 people who were all reloading Steam and Arc Raiders over and over DDoSed the two services.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A decent error message would have been useful.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if there's an existing error message for "please stop reloading Steam all at once, the game will come back online just give them time".

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

"unable to contact server" would do. It tells me it's not a problem on my end.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Been happening though. Maybe it's a coincidence or it's happening again or something. Interesting theory though.