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.
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.
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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I been playing with it under opensuse a bit and on one side I am happy, on the other side I feel a bit iffy, the whole hardcoded ubuntu12_32 in the scripts, the executable, the install directory and the ~/.steam make me feel that it is really build against ubuntu and not linux in general
Yes I know they said that from the beginning but "we" also all figured it would not last long till it runs against other distributions, and yup I got it working pretty fast but I also feel that there is no real guaranty it will work on my next opensuse release or that valve suddenly won't add some heavy dependency with unity in their next build, which they are allowed as they clearly stated ubuntu is their prime distro.
So I feel a bit iffy, with desura I know that it is not build against a specific distribution and with desurium I know I can compile it myself if I upgrade and desura won't match, so I feel comfy buying games there. For now I don't feel that same confidence with steam yet.
And yup I know it's early but I figured I share my thoughts :)
Yes I know they said that from the beginning but "we" also all figured it would not last long till it runs against other distributions, and yup I got it working pretty fast but I also feel that there is no real guaranty it will work on my next opensuse release or that valve suddenly won't add some heavy dependency with unity in their next build, which they are allowed as they clearly stated ubuntu is their prime distro.
So I feel a bit iffy, with desura I know that it is not build against a specific distribution and with desurium I know I can compile it myself if I upgrade and desura won't match, so I feel comfy buying games there. For now I don't feel that same confidence with steam yet.
And yup I know it's early but I figured I share my thoughts :)
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Well, with Steam you have to buy into their philosophy. If you don't, you are left in the cold. That is true in general.
In this specific case though, we will have to wait and see, and it is still in closed beta after all. I am really kind of perplexed by all the people jumping into this thing so quickly and in some ways leaving their good sense at the door - it is still very early yet, so calm down and down everyone and maybe learn a little bit of patience.
Says someone who is personally not terribly interested I know. But still...
In this specific case though, we will have to wait and see, and it is still in closed beta after all. I am really kind of perplexed by all the people jumping into this thing so quickly and in some ways leaving their good sense at the door - it is still very early yet, so calm down and down everyone and maybe learn a little bit of patience.
Says someone who is personally not terribly interested I know. But still...
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Woot! Looks like SS3:BFE got an update and now actually has the binaries and runs! Runs decent on my system, there were a few skips when I started the game but it smoothed out and ran fine even on ultra settings
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Quoting: "Kame, post: 6252, member: 102"Woot! Looks like SS3:BFE got an update and now actually has the binaries and runs! Runs decent on my system, there were a few skips when I started the game but it smoothed out and ran fine even on ultra settings
All the games have the binaries, but only for the beta-testers. KF is on Linux, TF2 is on Linux and CKII is on Linux, but only for the lucky 1000 (and UDS attendees).
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Well i reckon another week maybe until the next round of invites, I love Killing Floor so I hope I am in the next batch to play it again!
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They also just added a load of character pack DLC's for Killing Floor :)
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Yeah, I really hope I can get in for the sake of KF and that they release L4D2 in the next round. They work well enough under Wine, but now that they are coming, I don't want to put up with Wine!
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Also, anyone got any idea how good Red Orchestra is? It's coming to Linux as well, but I've no idea whether it's worth getting. Hopefully the second one will come eventually as well, but for that we'd need Unreal 3...
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A friend of mine used to play and loved it, I will be getting it.
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Cheeseness Nov 10, 2012
Quoting: "Anon, post: 6260"All the games have the binaries, but only for the beta-testers. KF is on Linux, TF2 is on Linux and CKII is on Linux, but only for the lucky 1000 (and UDS attendees).
This isn't the case. Everything that you already own that has Linux listed under "validoslist" in its CDR will show up in your games list, but only games that appear [URL='http://store.steampowered.com/search#os=linux']here[/URL] actually have published content, even for beta participants (so, for example, Rochard appears in everybody who has it's game list, but installing it only creates an empty folder).
For anybody who's poking around with a distro other than Ubuntu, I'm trying to keep a current list maintained [URL='http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steam-linux/discussions/0/882965239594443552/']here[/URL]. So far, people have reported Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, Mint, OpenSUSE, and a couple of flavours of Debian, along with a nice range of WMs/DEs.
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