New Steam Client Update Improves Native Linux Gaming

New Steam Client Update Improves Native Linux Gaming and Fixes Many Bugs

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Marius Nestor
Nov 6, 2024

The new Steam Client brings a lot of Linux changes, starting with support for executing native Linux game titles in the Steam for Linux runtime 1.0 (scout) by default rather than of the legacy runtime environment. This change promises better compatibility across all Linux desktop distributions.

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Marius Nestor

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