Canonical spoke about plans to expand the capabilities of Ubuntu as a platform for running gaming applications. It is noted that the development of the Wine and Proton projects, as well as the adaptation of the BattlEye and Easy Anti-Cheat anti-cheat services, already allow many games available only for Windows to run on Linux. After the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the company intends to work hard to make it easier to access games in Ubuntu and improve the ease of launching them. The development of Ubuntu as a convenient environment for running games is one of the priorities, and the company intends to hire additional staff to achieve this goal.
The first step towards making games easier to access on Ubuntu was to publish a pre-release snap package with the Steam client. The package provides a ready-made environment for running games, which allows you not to mix the dependencies necessary for games with the main system and get a pre-configured actual environment that does not require additional configuration.
Steam delivery features in Snap format:
- Inclusion in the package of up-to-date versions of the dependencies necessary to run games. The user does not need to perform manual operations, install a set of 32-bit libraries and connect PPA repositories with additional Mesa drivers. The snap package is also Ubuntu-free and can be installed on any distribution that supports snapd.
- Simplify installation of updates and the ability to use the latest versions of Proton, Wine and the necessary dependencies.
- Isolation of the environment for running games from the main system. Executable games run without access to the system environment, which creates an additional bastion of protection in case games and game services are compromised.
Source: opennet.ru