mjohanning, 1 month ago

I still cannot believe how far gaming on Linux has come. I still remember back in 2013 when Steam was first released for Linux and I was stoked that I could finally play some games on Ubuntu without having to mess around with PlayOnLinux and have abysmal performance. I could play Half-Life natively on Linux!

And now I can pretty much play my entire Steam and GOG libraries without any issues and, sometimes, even better performance than on Windows! And in the case of Steam, I don't even have to do anything, I just click "install" on any Windows-only game and the game just installs and runs perfectly afterward - most of the time, anyway.

I've attached two screenshots I took back in March 2013 of the then newly released Steam client for Linux because I thought it was interesting. Looks very similar to how it looks today 😅

Another screenshot of the program Steam running on an old version of Ubuntu. It is showing the store page in German.