Steam on Linux

[b1o]

It looks like it's finally happening, a native steam client for Linux, no more wine for games.

It seems like their goal is to port the entire Source engine to Linux, if so we will se lots and lots of games re-released for Linux, and probably new games for the Source Engine aswell

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_linux_dampfnudeln&num=1

It's about damn time that a game company sees the potential in Linux as a gaming platform. A super light OS makes for a much better platform than an OS using half of your resources.

Cheers Valve, if this goes trough you will be my favourite games developers again ^^

[viking60]

Simply being able to execute a Source Engine game myself on an Ubuntu Linux installation and not seeing it pass through Wine or anything else was almost worth the time and expense

[viking60]

Valve has announced their games on a Linux platform for ages but little has come from it. But now the steam'd penguins are coming. There is a team working on it for Ubuntu with these priorities: getting the Steam client onto Linux with full functionality optimizing a version of L4D2 running at a high frame rate with OpenGL porting additional Valve titles So watch out people the Zombies are coming

[dedanna1029]

TBH, and PLEASE don't get me wrong on this; I think it great that Valve is doing this, but I've been checking it out, and the games are really expensive, and just why do I need another gaming proggie to game? Valve is very limited on the distributions they support with Steam. It might be good to get new users to Linux as a gaming platform, but I look at it like, "Hey. I've got Play On Linux, Wine, Crossover, ScummVM, all kinds of stuff+Humble Bundle and other games, so I need Steam, why?" I've checked out all four of these - there are many many distributions that are supported.

I tried to install the source (tar.gz), only to extract it and find that it in itself only supports debian and Ubuntu (mostly Ubuntu); I thought that defeated the purpose of getting the source??? I always looked at it like the source tarballs are for those who can't find something in the repos of their own distribution. Steam is not in the Mageia repos, btw.

If they're going to support Linux, hey, let's rock and roll and support LINUX.

[viking60]

I don't think the limitations are a big problem:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam
http://software.opensuse.org/package/steam
http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/di ... 1448270483

And why do you need it? You probably don't - but those who do will have a better quality than in Windows or in Wine. Expensive? Cold be but that is always a matter of what people are willing to pay for it. It is called the "market" often referred to as the principle of the bigger idiot (The one that wants to pay more than you).

This is good for Linux. Because then more people will use it for their favorite activity.

And to be honest that probably goes beyond the CLI.

[dedanna1029]

I don't think the limitations are a big problem:
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http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/di ... 1448270483

Yes. Again,

--->I tried to install the source (tar.gz), only to extract it and find that it in itself only supports debian and Ubuntu (mostly Ubuntu)<---; I thought that defeated the purpose of getting the source??? I always looked at it like the source tarballs are for those who can't find something in the repos of their own distribution. Steam is not in the Mageia repos, btw.

I have to do all that because it's not rpm-noarch supported (it's only there for Fedora, and I haven't been able to get that rpm to work), to install something I don't need? Nah, thanks. I'll wait until things catch up... if they do. I'm going to keep an eye out.

I'm also unwilling to install sudo and use it (I could without it, I suppose, however?).

Thanks, though.

[viking60]

Steam works great on Manjaro Linux and Team Fortress is a free game. For Halloween they have made a new map where we have to drive a dead brother to hell

You do so in competition with another team and then you win - and get to hell.
There you have to climb a mountain to really win.

And guess what folks - I made it to hell....

[dedanna1029]

Nice...