Canonical Brings Steam Gaming to Ubuntu ARM64 With FEX Emulation
For more than a decade, ARM architecture has quietly dominated mobile computing while remaining largely absent from mainstream PC gaming. Smartphones, tablets, embedded systems, and increasingly data centers embraced ARM for its efficiency and scalability, but gaming workloads—particularly PC gaming—remained firmly tied to x86 hardware. That boundary is now eroding. Canonical’s release of a Steam Snap for Ubuntu ARM64, bundled with the FEX emulator, marks one of the most consequential developments yet for Linux gaming on ARM. It signals not only technical progress, but also a strategic shift in how the Linux ecosystem approaches software compatibility, performance portability, and gaming … Read more