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Containers and Steam: Putting games under pressure | FOSDEM 2020

Name: Containers and Steam: Putting games under pressure | FOSDEM 2020
Description: FOSDEM 2020 talk from Collabora on pressure-vessel, an experimental mechanism that puts Steam games in containers on Linux. It covers using namespaces to give games their own runtime library stack independent of the host.

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This talk was cited on HN 3 times between 2020 and 2022, but never outright recommended.

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HN references it as the explanation of how Valve uses containers for Linux game compatibility.

FOSDEM 2020 talk from Collabora on pressure-vessel, an experimental mechanism that puts Steam games in containers on Linux. It covers using namespaces to give games their own runtime library stack independent of the host.

Also tagged: linux game containers, steam, pressure-vessel, namespaces, flatpak, valve

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3 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Cites it Zhyl October 2020 under Valve put their 'Pressure Vessel' container source for Linux games up on Gitlab

Talk on Valve's pressure-vessel container runtime for Linux games

Here's someone from Collabra doing a talk on it [0]. The idea is pretty straightforward, but actually will fill an important niche in the compatibility and eventual archival space. On a higher level note, this shows that Valve is pretty committed to Linux as a concept. I feel that while a second wave of Steam Machines or Steam OS may be a while away, they're certainly making it much easier for gamers to Switch to Linux if they were so inclined. [0] [this video]

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Cites it teddyfrozevelt September 2021 under I Built My New Linux Gaming Desktop in 2021 with AMD (CPU+GPU) and GNU Guix

Shows Valve using Bubblewrap containers for its Linux runtimes

Valve are basically doing Flatpak on their own. They're using Bubblewrap (made for Flatpak) with their Linux runtimes. See here: [this video]

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Cites it account42 February 2022 under Thank You, Valve

Presentation on Steam's runtime and container use for games

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> I'm sure many would happily drop 32bit games support for that. Really? There are still many x86-only games on Steam, tons of which probably won't ever be updated. And if Valve does not make that clear on the Store pages then they will receive part of the blame and support burden. I think what is more likely to happen is for Steam to come with it's own 32-bit dependencies that marshal to the 64-bit system GL/Vulkan/etc. The client itself might be ported to 64-bit too but that would not even be needed at that point. This is already partially the case today - the Steam runtime contains most required 32-bit (and 64-bit) libraries and Steam is already (optionally) using containers for games: [link] Presentation on this from 2 years ago: [this video]

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