Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 4, 2013 @06:22AM from the check-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gaming on Linux is growing fast right now, and most of that is thanks to Steam. Initially, Steam committed only to the most popular desktop distribution, Ubuntu, but more recently has opened the door to others. So what do you do when you want to game in Linux and you're using something a little less popular — at least, on the desktop? If you're a programmer called GhostSquad57, you rewrite the installer for Debian. GhostSquad57 uploaded his efforts to Github yesterday, and has since reached out to the Linux community."

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Not GNU/Steam by ButchDeLoria · 2013-03-04 06:27 · Score: 5, Funny

Not free enough, 2/10 would not install.
Typical Linux geek by sl4shd0rk · 2013-03-04 07:12 · Score: 5, Funny

would rather be hacking the game than playing it.

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Re:big deal by jgtg32a · 2013-03-04 08:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Ubuntu is an African word that means "I can't configure Debian"
Re:big deal by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-04 08:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Debian is a Klingon word that means "I'm scared of Slackware"