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Steam Linux Beta Prepares For 64-bit, Can Be Run Inside Steam Runtime Container

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An interesting new Steam client beta dropped overnight from Valve with some exciting low-level enhancements.

First up, the Steam for Linux client can now itself be run inside the Steam Runtime container. This is the same Steam Runtime container used by Steam games with the Steam client beta itself now able to run inside the container. Their hope is that this will provide a more consistent experience across various Linux distributions with the client running in the same container.

This runtime container work for the Steam client is referred to as "SteamRT3" and it also now includes the client being updated to 64-bit.

The SteamRT3 beta client is being distributed alongside the regular Steam beta client and is opt-in via a "Use experimental SteamRT3 Steam Client" setting within the Steam beta.

More details on this exciting SteamRT3 Linux beta work via [1]SteamCommunity.com .



[1] https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/532125848715658036


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