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Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public
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Re: Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public
#12What black magic do they use to make the games run under Linux? Wine? Are all Steam games now compatible with Linux, or only a few titles that the developers are willing to support Linux? Is there a list anywhere?
They are still porting games to Linux, and no its not wine. They are porting games to Linux with OpenGL from Windows with DirectX
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Amnesia, which was already supported -.- Left4Dead was also going to be available, not sure what happened.
My impression was that they started the project by porting Left4Dead, but decided to release TF2 (probably because it's F2P and so anyone can test it).
TF2 also has microtransactions so it will also earn them money in the short AND long run as well.
Quite a smart business decision and I'm glad they brought TF2 over - I always thought this would be the first game to publicly release.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a list, found here: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux Very few games are compatible, but Team Fortress 2 is one of them.
And Amnesia, which was already supported -.- Left4Dead was also going to be available, not sure what happened.
My understanding is that the plan is for all Valve Source Engine games are going to be ported (and should be relatively simple now that TF2 is working).
Everything else is up to the various game studios, though all games in the Humble Indie Bundles support Linux so hopefully they are added to Steam soon.
Re: Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public
#15What black magic do they use to make the games run under Linux? Wine? Are all Steam games now compatible with Linux, or only a few titles that the developers are willing to support Linux? Is there a list anywhere?
The games are native ports, according to their Linux blog.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Amnesia, which was already supported -.- Left4Dead was also going to be available, not sure what happened.
My understanding is that the plan is for all Valve Source Engine games are going to be ported (and should be relatively simple now that TF2 is working). Everything else is up to the various game studios, though all games in the Humble Indie Bundles support Linux so hopefully they are added to Steam soon.
> so hopefully they are added to Steam soon
Many are already available.
Re: Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public
#17Holy EULA, Batman.
Re: Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public
#18Interesting that they're using GitHub for issue tracking, although there's no actual code in the repo: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues
I've seen this quite a bit recently. It's a hack but it's a quick way to get a public-facing issue tracker out there. Are there any better solutions for getting a tracker set up easily where non-contributors can raise bugs and discuss feature requests?
http://launchpad.net has a bug tracker and a blueprints function.
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#19I'm not 100% sure why they have a "repo" for an "installer". It sort of rather defeats the purpose. If they're going to do that, just put the client in a DEB and put that in the repo. At this point I see no reason in adding the repo to apt.
Either way, it'll get sorted, Steam for Linux is already quite great. Still can't get over that TF2 runs better in a window in Linux than I've ever had it run in Windows.
Re: Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public
#20What black magic do they use to make the games run under Linux? Wine? Are all Steam games now compatible with Linux, or only a few titles that the developers are willing to support Linux? Is there a list anywhere?
There's a list, found here: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux Very few games are compatible, but Team Fortress 2 is one of them.
Hopefully id get all their old games up on that list soon, they put in a lot of effort over the years when not many others were, a shame that changed recently though.