It supports 101 games. Not bad! http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/
Not quite. A lot of the 100 "games" are DLC for other games.
Official Steam client for Ubuntu released
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Steam runs great on Arch. Unfortunately TF2 does not, at least for me. Freezes my entire system while loading any map, to the point I have to ssh in and kill "hl2". I'd report it, but I'm not certain I should due to Arch being an unsupported platform.
So, I normally have issues with fullscreen applications - in Windows and Wine. Fullscreen in Linux hasn't been an issue, but I'm pretty sure that's because the Valve/Source games run in "Windowed Fullscreen" so the window manager still gets to control it when you've released the mouse (ie, pressed Esc and are at the menu). tl;dr: Try adding '-windowed' to the launch options for TF2 and see if that helps at all. (Stea…
Thanks for the tl;dr.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
ubuntu is trying to not be 'just another linux'. sadly they are using a lot of lock-in tactics similar to Sony since the 80's or apple more recently. that said, they are the distro with the best live-usb installer by far.
The debs work fine under debian/sid and most deb packages work fine between debian and ubuntu and the places where they don't are by some evil design. yeesh
Did you get the Steam ones to work? At least the betas were hopeless because they're linked to glibc 2.15 or something, whereas Debian uses the forked eglibc 2.13.
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#104Also, Team Fortress 2 for Linux [1] was officially released today (it's been in open beta testing for quite a while). What I find particularly interesting about this is the time-limited item giveaway. Valve did something very similar when they released the OS X version of TF2, where anyone who logged in on a Mac received a free cosmetic "earbuds" item. The promo triggered a mad scramble of players to find a Mac to pl…
I'm quite amused by Valve's business decision. One may say that this is the logical next step but I'm smiling on the insides. I can't help but think that they're tryig to out-Microsoft MS. The embrace, extend, extinguish policy is obvious as day. They waited all these years to gain a significant foothold in the Windows segment. Now that they've got this, we could see them slowly expanding to Mac first, and today Linu…
> I'm really confident that the only people who use Windows will be (a) people who know nothing about computers and use whatever it came preinstalled with (b) at work since they're not allowed to format the computer (c) they need a very specific software that is not available on Linux or Mac
Or OpenGL graphics programmers who find the state of drivers under Linux, while a lot better than years ago, still sub-optimal compared to Windows...
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#105I think most people are excited about Steam on Linux because of gaming, but I've actually been excited because of better driver support. If this makes Nvidia put more effort into their Linux drivers and tools, it will make life a lot better for CUDA programming too. (I haven't tried OpenCL or AMD GPGPU stuff yet.)
> it will make life a lot better for CUDA programming too Well having done quite a bit of CUDA programming under Windows and Linux, i'm interested in knowing what you find lacking on Linux ? Performance wise i can report CUDA is just as fast on Linux as it is on windows. Regarding tool support, i actually prefer to work under Linux, not because tools are better per se, but because your usual Unix tool chain does wond…
> Performance wise i can report CUDA is just as fast on Linux as it is on windows.
Great. But definitely not the case for OpenGL last I checked (which admittedly is half a year ago).
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#106I think most people are excited about Steam on Linux because of gaming, but I've actually been excited because of better driver support. If this makes Nvidia put more effort into their Linux drivers and tools, it will make life a lot better for CUDA programming too. (I haven't tried OpenCL or AMD GPGPU stuff yet.)
The articles on this blog always interested me.
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#107It's a happy day. I was considering installing Windows so I could dual boot on my Arch machine but this has made me reconsider. I remember how years ago, on KDE2, wine barely ran anything and the best games available on *nix were things like NetHack. What a long way it's come! Now we have a prominent gaming platform and ports of some excellent premium games. Things like this are edging GNU/Linux towards mainstream success on the desktop.
I think that one thing which would help here is a more complete gaming API ala DirectX. We can already achieve this with OpenGL/SDL/OpenAL/whatever good networking libraries there are but a project which aggregates these into one would be beneficial, in my opinion.
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#108It's a happy day. I was considering installing Windows so I could dual boot on my Arch machine but this has made me reconsider. I remember how years ago, on KDE2, wine barely ran anything and the best games available on *nix were things like NetHack. What a long way it's come! Now we have a prominent gaming platform and ports of some excellent premium games. Things like this are edging GNU/Linux towards mainstream su…
Hey, we had Heroes III, 13 years ago. http://www.lokigames.com/products/heroes3/ (Also the only commercial title ever to grace Linux/PPC.)
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#109Uh-oh, Counter Strike: Source is available on Linux... there goes my startup.
I'm spared, it doesn't yet work. Guess I best get back to work.
In the interests of truthiness, it might be a local issue for you - CS:Source works fine for me on Linux, but perhaps you should get your startup started up before investigating further...
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Tried this on 64bit Mint install but having trouble. What are the dependencies?
When I tried installing the 64-bit version on Kubuntu 12.10, I got a dependency error [steam64 depends on steam (= 1.0.0.27)]. I just downloaded the 32-bit version also and installed them both.
Yeah, I got the same error but for some reason the Mint Software center can't find package 'steam' not sure what I'm doing wrong...