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Why no open source Steam clients? (fedia.io)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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There are open source clients for Epic Games Store and GOG.COM, why not for Steam too?

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[–] je_skirata 67 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Probably because Valve provides a native Linux client

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 33 points 2 weeks ago

And the client is actually good, too.

[–] octoblade@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 2 weeks ago

This is at least a main part of the reason. I use an open source client for GOG on Linux, the only reason why is because they don't natively support Linux.