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Steam Closed Beta Now Live!

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Thanks to the Steam group chat it has been revealed that Steam will go live today when someone pointed this out, the news comes thanks to Nvidia's news here dated today with the release of an improved graphics driver.
QuoteAvailable for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.


Linux is also now available as a filter for finding games on the official website: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=#os=linux&advanced=0&sort_order=ASC&page=1

Steam also has some planned Downtime today at 11PM GMT (16:00 PDT) so it could well be a late night release for me.

UPDATE: media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
Update 2: It's officially on - and i didn't get in :( http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/882965118606625844/
Update 3: Over 60,000 people wanted in on the beta! http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/

So people, are you ready? What will be your first purchase on the Steam Linux client?

Ps. Add me to your Steam - "liamdawe" Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Anon Nov 6, 2012
Ups, I mean want to, anyway, sorry to hear, try removing the steam folders and maybe it'll work?
Anon Nov 6, 2012
@Kame: Doesn't work, doesn't do anything yet, just opens Steam which then turns off.

Also, no beta for me... come on Valve, you need more than 1000 people! At least 1001!
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
Over 60,000 people wanted the beta, that's a lot of customers on Linux!
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Three times the Humble regulars. I wonder what will be the numbers once it's completely out.

Some ugly things - doesn't adhere to XDG specs, so instead of being under ~/.local/share/. it's right under ~/. Well, that's a small one. Another is the directory to which all Steam games are installed is ~/Steam, which is something I'd rather stay invisible (perhaps again under XDG_DATA_HOME).
Bumadar Nov 6, 2012
.deb means you need to install as root, never used ubuntu so correct me if I am wrong ? so not like desura where its a local/user install ?
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
.deb means you need to usually install as root, but it can then do what it wants from there remember.
Bumadar Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6157, member: 1".deb means you need to usually install as root, but it can then do what it wants from there remember.


yup, why I like installing games and such as user :) was just wondering.
Anon Nov 6, 2012
You install the deb and then it pulls the rest from the servers into your home directory.
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Apparently, there's a badge for this.

Also: http://i.imgur.com/sjoDC.jpg, http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/12qs6z/steam_for_linux_its_here_deb_in_the_link/c6xdfd6
They already got it. Apparently, there's also a badge for this, so it's easy to tell if you know someone in there.

And someone in the thread is claiming it's easy to bypass the check. Anyone care to share? ;)
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Kame, you were right!
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