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Canonical/Ubuntu Targeting ARM64 Users
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Neowin ☛ Ubuntu brings stable Arm64 Steam Snap to GNU/Linux users for improved hardware gaming
Gaming on Arm-based GNU/Linux systems just got a major boost. Canonical's new stable Steam Snap opens up PC gaming across a range of Qualcomm and Nvidia hardware.
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has promoted the Arm64 Steam Snap to the Stable channel, giving gaming on the platform a bit of a boost. Before today, this version of the Snap was considered a candidate release, but now anybody can use it with confidence that it will work like other versions of the Steam Snap.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Canonical’s Steam Snap for ARM64 is now stable
Canonical has bumped its Steam Snap for ARM64 to the stable channel. First announced in January, the snap has been tested across ARM64 hardware including the NVIDIA DGX Spark, Radxa Orion O6 and Lenovo ThinkPad X13s, with Canonical now reporting ‘solid performance’ across many popular games. Valve doesn’t provide a native ARM GNU/Linux client (not yet, anyway), so Canonical bundles the Intel/AMD Steam binary with the FEX emulator.
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Canonical Promotes Steam Snap to Stable on ARM64, With Plans to Rebuild It from Scratch Later
The current snap bundles FEX to emulate x86 Steam on ARM hardware, but that approach might be shortlived.