There’s gonna be people who don’t know why containers break iso27002 and think they’re the bees knees just lashing out for this affront to their favourite toy, dude. Hunker down.
Comment on New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It’s 2026. An experimental version of Steam’s runtime container – a very normal thing for your software to have – is now 64-bit. This is worthy of praise somehow for a multibillion-dollar corporation whose only real job is to do bare minimum maintenance of its storefront and rake in 30% of profits from its monopoly.
Glad to know where the bar is.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Retail4068@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Holy fuck you nerds will fund ANYTHING to screech about.
grue@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
👆Why are you booing him? He’s right!
I mean, good for Valve for finally making progress on 64-bit, but it really is kinda absurd that it’s taken this long.
warmaster@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Name another gaming company that has been as good and influential.
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Good at getting people hooked on gambling?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Are you butthurt that I called it a monopoly because it is one? Its status as a “benevolent monopoly” doesn’t make it not a monopoly; its competitors’ incompetence doesn’t make it not a monopoly; competition existing doesn’t make it not a monopoly; that it’s not an illegal monopoly doesn’t make it not a monopoly.
Its incredibly stable market share, which is deeply entrenched because you don’t own the games you buy there and can’t bring them elsewhere.
The point of pointing out that Valve is a monopoly is that they have functionally no real competition to worry about; they have all the leeway in the world to improve their client, so I’m not going to clap like a seal when the container for the software gets 64-bit support in the year of our lord 2026.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
What an incredibly weird complaint
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
That it’s weird for Valve’s client to be running inside a container?
My other software isn’t containerized that I know of. I don’t run Firefox in Docker.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Why the fuck is it weird for a client to run inside a runtime environment with well-defined library versions, when that client has to ship that runtime environment anyways to ensure the games can actually run on a broad range of systems?
Oh, sure, it’s so much better if the client relies on system libraries instead. Yes please, I like incompatibilities and issues with debugging. So much better than loading a different set of libraries. Stupid Valve!
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Alright, let’s just say it’s perfectly fine because of the problem Valve creates by making you open Steam when you play games. It’s just 64-bit for the runtime, not even the client itself. It’s 2026. I’m not going to act like this is an accomplishment.
9point6@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Funnily enough, people running in Ubuntu do get Firefox in a container by default IIRC as it’s delivered as a snap
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You recall correctly. It’s another one of Canonical’s attempts to shoehorn their trash.