Steam For Linux Has Its First Birthday Today!

Everyone agrees that Canonical has done a lot of good in promoting Linux

I wish people would stop trying to speak for everyone*. I sure as hell don't agree!

*Likewise, despite assertions of the contrary, not everyone agrees that "at least Ender's Game was a great book". Seriously people, stop doing that!

AAA titles on Linux.

Another big one is coming: Project cars !


http://www.wmdportal.com/projectnews/project-cars-races-to-next-gen/

Now I know steam machines will be able to compete with consoles :D

No way :O 
That was the only racing game I was wishing for a Linux port and now it will really come to Linux :D
That is awesome to say the least. For what I have seen so far from this game, no Grand Turismo, Need for Speed or anything else can compete with this.
I will definitely buy it first day it arrives on Linux. 

Oh and happy first birthday Steam on Linux :)

I've been awaiting the arrival of Steam on Linux eagerly and especially the Steam machines, for I knew/know it would/will give incredible traction to the OS, even though I didn't plan to use Steam myself.

Recently I've grown some respect for Valve for a number of reasons though. I hope they will continue in the way of openness. But until they get away with the DRM I'm still reluctant to buy anything on their platform, I don't want to lock my library on any platform, I want to be free to use a different app or OS-integrated way to manage my games. Sadly I know that as long as they don't have a real competitor, most games will only release on Steam and I might be forced to buy from them.

This is not aimed at anyone specifically... I still don't understand why anyone who not only doesn't use Steam but detests what it stands for, would want to post in a thread celebrating it! It doesn't add anything :P

Because Liam asked :

What are you most looking forward to in future from Steam on Linux? Or if you shy away from it, why?

It might also just be the will to speak about a recurrent topic that one's strongly opiniated about. ;)

Lots of games on Steam don't use DRM. You can use Steam to buy them cheap, download them, then never use Steam again.
http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

But then cheapness is only one benefit of Steam. For me, the bigger value is in the community, knowing what my friends are playing, competing for achievements, jumping into their games, using the Steam voicechat to emulate LAN parties, starting up threads about the games and their linux support, and modding games simply by "subscribing" to workshop content.

Steam has its drawbacks, but the platform is pretty awesome. Like most social platforms, you get out more if you put in more.

I celebrated it by purchasing Metro Last Light :D

I celebrated it by purchasing Metro Last Light :D

Lots of games on Steam don't use DRM.

I wish they advertised it on the games' profile.

Lots of games on Steam don't use DRM.

I wish they advertised it on the games' profile.

A common, and justified complaint. They should man-up in that regard. Name and shame and all that...

Because Liam asked :

What are you most looking forward to in future from Steam on Linux? Or if you shy away from it, why?

It might also just be the will to speak about a recurrent topic that one's strongly opiniated about. ;)

Whoops... looks like I just stood on a rake!

This is not aimed at anyone specifically... I still don't understand why anyone who not only doesn't use Steam but detests what it stands for, would want to post in a thread celebrating it! It doesn't add anything :P

I generally do not come and rain on other people's parades without a reason, but here Liam left in the invitation.

You use the open source drivers right?

Yes, I do. I do not see why that is relevant, except as another example of how my gaming experience has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years with or without Valve.

Everyone agrees that Canonical has done a lot of good in promoting Linux

I wish people would stop trying to speak for everyone. I sure as hell don't agree!

Indeed, that bothers me to. There is a reason why languages include quantifier words - because a lot of things are not so easily quantified.

Thanks for that DRM Free list scaine, that was news to me. Actually Hamish, I have a 6670 and the Open Source Radeon drivers work really good, in some instances, better than fglrx. Nothing to be ashamed of, and if anything it's Nvidia who should be ashamed not to even have an Open Source driver of their own, some guys had to reverse engineer one.

I think Valve replied once via an Email if they ever went out of business, they have a plan in place that will let everyone continue to enjoy their games. Whoever that was replied to my comment about SteamOS games working on regular distros; what people say and what actually happens are two different things. I'll believe it when I see it.

So happy Birthday Steam for Linux, but Mike Frett needs some clarification before his usage of Steam continues.

Lots of games on Steam don't use DRM.

I wish they advertised it on the games' profile.

Interesting to see Valve's own HalfLife & Portal series among those that can be run standalone...
(referring to http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games that Scaine mentioned earlier)

Thanks for that DRM Free list scaine, that was news to me. Actually Hamish, I have a 6670 and the Open Source Radeon drivers work really good, in some instances, better than fglrx. Nothing to be ashamed of, and if anything it's Nvidia who should be ashamed not to even have an Open Source driver of their own, some guys had to reverse engineer one.

Hey, I am not ashamed - I love my Radeon HD 4670 running on R600g. One of the best $40s I ever spent. ^_^

You use the open source drivers right?

Yes, I do. I do not see why that is relevant, except as another example of how my gaming experience has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years with or without Valve.

No you are correct, I was just making sure. Cause valve has helped improve the closed source drivers.

Everyone agrees that Canonical has done a lot of good in promoting Linux

I wish people would stop trying to speak for everyone. I sure as hell don't agree!

Indeed, that bothers me to. There is a reason why languages include quantifier words - because a lot of things are not so easily quantified.

Sorry, I suppose I should have said a lot of people agree. But then a lot of people are also suspicious of them (myself included).

Well I was gaming on Steam years sometime before I even knew what a Linux was ;)
As such, I have many online friends I made in the Steam Community and even my girlfriend heavily uses Steam. So although I am no fan of DRM and what not either, it's not something I could ever easily kick to the curb.

I am loving the games that have come along and are coming though. Metro Last Light the last few days has been quite an experience, as I can't think of too many FPS experiences like it being on Linux (playing games in WINE aside, I'm talking native here).

I'm excited; though Valve will want to be careful how they manage the co-existance of SteamOS and the general Linux distros. But they've already put this much work into the general Linux client and library of games, I don't think they'll compromise that vision now. If anything they may (I hope) be smart about it and take advantage of the fact a lot of Linux gamers are fairly technically minded and don't mind submitting problem reports and workarounds, which if they keep the underlying structure of SteamOS pretty much standard (i.e no Not-Invented-Here-Syndrome fueled stuff that introduces incompatibility) will actually help them keep SteamOS going smooth as possible.