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Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Not GNU/Steam by ButchDeLoria · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not free enough, 2/10 would not install.

  2. Wow Slashdot! by bennyp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Check out this headline: Linux guy edits script to better suit his setup. Let's get this to the front page NOW!

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    1. Re:Wow Slashdot! by zigfreed · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's worse than that. This is a Slashdot discussion about a Reddit thread, with a third site intermediary.

    2. Re:Wow Slashdot! by RocketRabbit · · Score: 5, Insightful

      But how else can "anonymous reader" engage Dice Holdings' genius marketing team to promote thepowerbase.com's awesome news aggregator?

      I think you are missing the point of these slashdot stories. They are pure SEO spam, designed to uprank whatever shitty site is giving us a synopsis of what is happening at another site.

      It's really too bad the internet took off and was noticed by business and advertising types. We need a modern day digital Jesus to upset the money changers' tables.

  3. Re:big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seeing as Ubuntu is debian for those scared of terms.

    Even less of a big deal when you check out NEW.

  4. Typical Linux geek by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 5, Funny

    would rather be hacking the game than playing it.

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  5. Re:big deal by Narcocide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, actually they do. Debian, Mozilla and Apache are the ones run by shadowy not-for-profit legal foundations (aka "charities"), but Canonical, on the other hand is a a for-profit corporation is actually selling your demographic info to advertisers just like Facebook and Apple.

  6. Re:big deal by jgtg32a · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ubuntu is an African word that means "I can't configure Debian"

  7. Re:big deal by dcollins117 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ubuntu is an African word that means "I can't configure Debian"

    It's funny because it's true. As a windows user who wanted to learn how to use linux (15 years ago or so) I had the catch-22 issue of installing and configuring system I knew very little about. So it was crucial for me that the installation "just worked" to get a working machine to learn on. I tried Debian first and got no where, then tried Ubuntu and it "just worked".

    Ubunutu is far from perfect, but it works good enough for new users that they can learn what they need to in order to abandon it once they tire of Canonical's shenanigans.