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Valve Officially Launches Steam For Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the time-to-play dept.

sl4shd0rk writes "Valve has finally released Steam for Linux. Although some of the 57 games listed on the Linux Steam site are previously released from the Humble Bundles, there are others which should provide adequate entertainment for anyone bored with the HB games. Among the games listed, many at deep discounts of 50%-75% off, are HalfLife, CounterStrke Source and Serious Sam 3. Hopefully Valve will keep the ports coming as rumor has it that Left 4 Dead had been ported at least for developers."

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  1. Goodbye Windows by OhANameWhatName · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was horrible knowing you.

    1. Re:Goodbye Windows by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You might want to wait on that. At this time, there's only ~100 titles available for Linux, and many of them have aleady been out for a year or so.

      Maybe one day Linux will be a platform hardcore gamers will use, but Steam for Linux is just a baby step in that direction. Remember, they've had Steam for OS X for a while now, and there's still only a tiny trickle of games for that platform.

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    2. Re:Goodbye Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      no, its apples to penguins.

    3. Re:Goodbye Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, I think you might be onto something. OpenBSD

    4. Re:Goodbye Windows by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You might want to wait on that. At this time, there's only ~100 titles available for Linux, and many of them have aleady been out for a year or so.

      Maybe one day Linux will be a platform hardcore gamers will use, but Steam for Linux is just a baby step in that direction. Remember, they've had Steam for OS X for a while now, and there's still only a tiny trickle of games for that platform.

      What's the problem? The availability of games for Linux just exploded into new numbers, and more are coming all the time. You don't have to wait for every game under the sun to be ported, and that's not the point anyway. Make the switch and enjoy. 2013 is the Year of Linux Gaming.

    5. Re:Goodbye Windows by zwede · · Score: 5, Interesting

      At this time, there's only ~100 titles available for Linux

      And a couple of weeks ago there were only 40. If they keep going at this rate things are looking promising!

    6. Re:Goodbye Windows by slimjim8094 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Wait, what? I've never heard that the OS X version of Steam was a 3rd party port. In fact, I'm almost certain it wasn't since I was in the Mac Beta and on the email list with the developers (who all have valvesoftware.com email addresses)

      Citation, please?

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  2. Downloading serious sam now by zwede · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm running 64-bit Gentoo and noticed Steam in the portage tree so I installed it. Works fine. Tried the free TF2 and it worked perfectly. Just bought SS3 for $8 and it's downloading. Valve is great!

  3. Re:No 64-bit? by zwede · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which distro might that be?

    Gentoo.

  4. Wine and bugs by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Informative

    This may help to spur on WINE development even more.

    At one point, I was responsible for a good sized Windows application. Something along the lines of Photoshop. Tested it under Wine, and Wine choked in a few obvious ways. As we thought it'd be nice if it worked under linux, if indirectly, I reported the issues to them. They blithely informed me that if we wanted the bugs fixed, we'd have to pay. Needless to say, we shelved the whole idea.

    Is that still the service model?

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