Valve has been a big proponent of Linux gaming, and now the company is investing in Android support on Linux. It’s already possible to run Android in a Linux container through Waydroid, but Valve has developed a new fork – and it has officially named it Lepton.
Last month, news broke that Valve would soon support Android games on Steam. This was thanks to a sighting in Steam app changelogs for Walkabout Mini Golf, which added an APK file. The VR title is currently available on the Meta Quest (which runs on a custom version of Android), and may run through the Lepton compatibility layer for Valve’s upcoming Steam Frame VR headset, which runs the company’s Linux-based operating system, SteamOS.
RION [she/her] - 2w
lepton these nuts
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SpaciousCoder78 - 2w
Who would’ve thought that the best way to become profitable was to just have a good service?
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RION [she/her] - 2w
Getting in on the ground floor of digital games marketplaces certainly helps as well
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RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] - 2w
The thing I wonder is will all this out live steam? How necessary is steam in the pipeline for these comparability layers?
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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 2w
From what I know, you can run proton outside of steam. I remember being able to use it via lutris. But maybe I'm remembering it wrong
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buckykat [none/use name] - 2w
You definitely can, because Proton is a fork of Wine, so Valve can't keep it all to themselves.
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Valve compatibility layer for running Android games on Linux gets official name in Steam documentation
https://www.pcguide.com/news/valve-compatibility-layer-for-running-android-games-on-linux-gets-official-name-in-steam-documentation/lepton these nuts
Who would’ve thought that the best way to become profitable was to just have a good service?
Getting in on the ground floor of digital games marketplaces certainly helps as well
The thing I wonder is will all this out live steam? How necessary is steam in the pipeline for these comparability layers?
From what I know, you can run proton outside of steam. I remember being able to use it via lutris. But maybe I'm remembering it wrong
You definitely can, because Proton is a fork of Wine, so Valve can't keep it all to themselves.