Updated to a Debian 13.2 base, from Debian 11 in Steam Linux Runtime 3
Can anyone eli5 what the steam runtime actually does? Ive seen scout and sniper on my system and i kinda accept that it has to be there but what does it do?
different distros have different environments. as in different libraries, versions and ways of accomplishing the same tasks. this is good for the linux ecosystem but bad for developers who want a predictable and stable set of tools they can build upon.
this system addresses just that by providing this stable set of libraries and tools developers can target instead.
eli5 it’s basically so your choice of distro doesn’t affect game compatibility, and developers don’t have to add manual support for every distro a user might want to run.
Ok thanks! Is it related to proton or is it just for native games?
Proton runs on SLR.
Can anyone eli5 what the steam runtime actually does?
It’s the thing that actually runs your games.
I’m curious what kind of code name they are giving to 4.0 (3.0 is sniper, for example). Was it decided yet?
Seems they moved away from code names: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/steamrt/steamrt4/README.md?ref_type=heads
v4 used to have the code name “medic”: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/wip/task725/medic/README.md?ref_type=heads
I’m confused, I thought they used Arch nowadays?
For SteamOS, yes. Steam Linux Runtime is a container environment for running games so they work across different distros.
