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submitted 2 months ago by Champoloo@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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.

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

lepton these nuts

[-] spaciouscoder78@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

Who would’ve thought that the best way to become profitable was to just have a good service?

[-] RION@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Getting in on the ground floor of digital games marketplaces certainly helps as well

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

The thing I wonder is will all this out live steam? How necessary is steam in the pipeline for these comparability layers?

[-] Alisu@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

You definitely can, because Proton is a fork of Wine, so Valve can't keep it all to themselves.

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