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Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

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Re: Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

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Post by bvdbijl »

Symmetry wrote: post #15
notatoad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't TF2 permanently free since they shifted their revenue stream over to selling hats?

I don't normally buy TF2 hats, but if they offer a penguin hat for linux users I'll totally buy one to say "Thank you" for porting this to Steam.

You get a tux if you play TF2 between now and a month: http://www.teamfortress.com/linux/

Re: Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

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Post by larrik »

Nux wrote: post #18
darxius wrote: post #14

I see this as a very big "win" for Linux. I can't wait to game tonight, thanks Steam.

This is a big win for Ubuntu+Nvidia; the other distros received a well placed "go fuck yourselves". This is like gaming on Macos being a win for BSDs. :-)

AMD can fix their drivers whenever they want.

Re: Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

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Post by Spittie »

Nux wrote: post #18
darxius wrote: post #14

I see this as a very big "win" for Linux. I can't wait to game tonight, thanks Steam.

This is a big win for Ubuntu+Nvidia; the other distros received a well placed "go fuck yourselves". This is like gaming on Macos being a win for BSDs. :-)

Why only Nvidia? Intel improved their open source drivers thanks to Valve, and AMD pushed some updates related to Steam as well.

And, while Steam officially support only Ubuntu (at least for now), Valve doesn't do anything for stopping it to run on other distro. They even modified the license to explicitly allow repacking, so that others could put the client in their repo.

They host on their site a .tar.gz with the Steam installer for distro that don't support .deb too.

Re: Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

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Post by noahl »

I 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.)

Re: Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

Nux wrote: post #18
darxius wrote: post #14

I see this as a very big "win" for Linux. I can't wait to game tonight, thanks Steam.

This is a big win for Ubuntu+Nvidia; the other distros received a well placed "go fuck yourselves". This is like gaming on Macos being a win for BSDs. :-)

There are already packages for Arch, and as per the new licensing terms for the client there's no reason it can't or won't be packaged for other distros. AMD also improved their drivers with Valve. Not sure where the hate is coming from.

Fedora, OpenSUSE, Gentoo, Arch: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#N...

Re: Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

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Post by desireco42 »

noahl wrote: post #24

I 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.)

Yes, this will do wonders for linux support.

Re: Official Steam client for Ubuntu released

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Post by dz0ny »

thechut wrote: post #25
dz0ny wrote: post #6

64bit version http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/pool/steam/s/steam/steam6...

Tried this on 64bit Mint install but having trouble. What are the dependencies?

just steam, also ubuntu software center should offer you 64bit version.

Notice: It's only metapackage for now, this probably means that 64bit version is coming.

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