Steam on ChromeOS: “A win-win situation for both Google and Valve”?

Following the recent release of our new podcast with Luke Short, please find the transcript below! You may not be familiar with him yet, but Luke Short is a former Red Hat employee and is currently employed at VMWare, specialized in cloud deployments (Kubernetes) – in his private time he happens to have a liking for Chromebooks and ChromeOS. Back in March 2021, he wrote a full article dedicated to the progress of several technologies that would make it possible at some point to run Steam directly on Chromebooks (x86 ones). We have therefore invited him to learn more about this topic. “Steam will run on ChromeOS” also happens to be is one of the most common predictions we had compiled for 2021 along with active folks on the Linux gaming scene.

Boiling Steam – Ekianjo: Hi everyone! Today we have a new podcast with a special guest named Luke Short, who is joining us from Colorado. Just to give you some background as to where this whole story comes from… Back in February we were discussing internally and also with other Linux gaming folks what kind of predictions we might have for this year. And the way we were doing that at the time, was to ask people who know in the little world of Linux gaming what are their five predictions as to what will be happening in the Linux gaming scene by the end of 2021.

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