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Factorio has a new ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere

a month ago by time2lose to c/linux

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Wube Software gave Factorio something players have been asking for 11 years - a full ARM64 Linux port to play anywhere, which is ready for the Steam Frame.
grue 12 points a month ago

Is there an ARM64 Linux build for the Steam client itself yet?

Also, good on the Factorio devs for being one of the few that are apparently designing their code correctly enough to be ported easily.

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CriticalMiss 10 points a month ago

The Steam SDK recently introduced arm64 support and I assume that client support is coming soon since the Steam Frame is an arm64 machine. After all, most of Steam is just a web app.

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PabloSexcrowbar 5 points a month ago

It would be somewhat ironic if Steam got 64-bit support on ARM before x86.

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felsiq 2 points a month ago

If they actually do this I’ll emulate ARM to drop x86, idgaf

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phailhaus 1 point a month ago

This was fairly easy because they already had ARM64 support (Switch) and x86 Linux support. That meant they had already worked out any architectural differences and they had a set of Linux-friendly libraries. The only real hurdles were:

  1. Getting a non-Frame ARM64 Linux system for testing
  2. Steam ARM64 teething issues since Valve has been working on the expectation that nearly everything will be either x86 or ARM Android builds run through a wrapper
  3. A single library that uses a funky build system

If they'd outsourced the Switch port to a porting house or didn't already have Linux support, this would have been a ton of work.

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QuantumGirl 1 point a month ago

that one game from that one HDG fanfic is closer to reality now

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