Steam Tests Native 64-Bit Linux Client To Fix A Decade Of Headaches

Not only has Epic released its Linux client, but Valve is also updating Steam For Linux to 64-bit. This is a welcome change for some users, since the initial 32-bit version of Steam For Linux launched over 13 years ago, on Valentine's Day of 2013. Though the Steam Client for Windows was only updated to 64-bit at the start of this year. That shift also meant Steam no longer worked on 32-bit systems, but only an estimated 0.01% of Steam users were still stuck on 32-bit Windows 10 when Valve announced the decision in September last year.

In addition to updating its Linux client, Valve has also been making other updated to Steam lately. Epic boasted about speed increases to its client that made it launch faster than Steam, only to be knocked back down in under 24 hours by a mainline Steam update according to some benchmarks....

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