Will Half-Life Alyx reach Linux?

If you like games and you are also Half-Life fans, surely you have not missed the news of Half-Life Alyx, a derivative of the action franchise that Valve will launch in 2020 exclusively for virtual reality systems and, For now, only for Windows. But will it also come to Linux?

The question is lawful. After all, Valve has put a lot of effort into supporting Linux, including virtual reality, despite how green the issue is compared to Windows. However, the ad refers only and exclusively to Windows, with no further information to suggest something else.

In other words, of the sites across the Internet that have echoed the news, none mention anything about Linux ... except Phoronix, which not only mentions it, but takes it for granted: «Half-Life : Alyx will be launched in March 2020 with support for Linux «, says the headline of a news without sources.

On the other hand, in Gaming On Linux they contacted Valve to ask about this issue and the company's response was what could be expected, corporately speaking: «At this moment we can only confirm Windows for this product«. They were?

The truth is that although Phoronix does not indicate any source that supports its assertion, there is, according to Michael Larabel (founder of the portal and responsible for the information) before the inevitable curiosity of the readers: «They told me (unofficially) that it shows like this on the Steam page until the requirements of the Linux system are added / determined «, responds in the comment thread of the news.

The question is, do you have credibility with Larabel? And why do they say "right now" from Valve, instead of discarding it more bluntly?

Unfortunately, we cannot answer for one or the other, but we can remember old times in which Phoronix confirmed the launch of Steam for Linux by contributing to screenshots, and shortly thereafter Valve strongly denied it. And over time we discovered that they were lying. But sometimes companies work: when they don't like something to be known, there is nothing to do.

So who knows if Half-Life Alyx will end up being able to enjoy itself also in Linux and not arrive alone, but with good news of virtual reality support in Linux.

In case you hadn't seen it, we leave you with the Half-Life Alyx trainer. It looks great, really.