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Steam is Coming to Linux
Posted Jul 17, 2012 at 3:51PM EST by Todd B

 Listed in: News Tags: left 4 dead 2, Linux, Steam, Ubuntu, valve
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Disclaimer: I don’t know anything about Linux. So if I say something wrong somewhere in here, you can save your nerdy corrections and just assume that I seriously don’t care. And with that out of the way, let’s talk Steam.


As of this week, Valve has confirmed that Steam is coming to Linux. In fact, Left 4 Dead 2 is already running in Ubuntu, which is apparently a Linux thing. Additionally, Valve has a whole team of folks working to bring Steam and the company’s first-party titles over to Linux.

 

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Here’s a quote:


“The goal of the Steam client project is a fully-featured Steam client running on Ubuntu 12.04. We've made good progress this year and now have the Steam client running on Ubuntu with all major features available.”


"We're still giving attention and effort to minor features, but it's a good experience at the moment. In the near future, we will be setting up an internal beta focusing on the auto-update experience and compatibility testing."


Make of that what you will, Linux fans.


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-1 # steambox afterall — Meat Duck 2012-07-17 18:18
Whohoo, Ouya encourages hacking so steambox here we come.

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+1 # RE: steambox afterall — Chuck 2012-07-17 19:39
hold your horses

ouya is arm based, I suppose valve made an x86 port of source engine for linux(mostly direct3d to opengl), they now release steam for linux but that doesnt mean you can download l4d2 for ouya when ouya get to stores, they need to port to arm cpu first(mostly opengl to opengl es, not so dificult) so lets hope valve port source to arm too

I would like this make a "domino effect" and we see more engines ported to linux like unreal engines and devs make builds for linux :D

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+1 # RE: Steam is Coming to Linux — wtfisthis 2012-07-17 18:42
linux as always been overrated

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+1 # how so? — KrazyNez 2012-07-17 20:04
I use linux, just not as much. I know more in linux than in windows and i have been using windows for years. The only thing holding me back was steam lol, i could use wine but that sucks sometimes.

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# true — trigger_ftu 2012-07-18 04:28
that's true in my case. well to an extent sense wine tweaks has been hard at work there's been a bigger variety of full working games and a few with glitches or just doesn't work (still doesn't have DX11 support yet).

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# RE: RE: Steam is Coming to Linux — PS360 Owner1 2012-07-17 21:38
I know the users of QJ.net have little to no intelligence, but saying Linux is overrated is complete bullshit.

MAC and Windows are by fact the two overrated systems used, Linux doesn't have too much popularity compared to them, since the users of MAC/Windows don't like very much how Linux works, or is.

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# uh yeah — trigger_ftu 2012-07-18 04:34
the big downside to linux and why not many people know about it more less use it is the fact that eather A. they do not know about non-commercial operating systems. or B. wish to use something native that has a more wider support for commercial OS's rather than an open source or community supported platform. and just to add for once i agree with you, stating something is BS with complete ignorance of the platform is BS.

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# RE: RE: RE: Steam is Coming to Linux — Musev 2012-07-18 14:30
mac is overrated, windows isnt, its just generic. but linux most certainly is over-rated. Im not saying its worthless but its so undersupported the only reason to use it is to try and make yourself look like a computer expert or feel in some way cooler than everybody else. windows is the only one that does everything and whats the point in an os if you cant do fuck all?

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# Undersupported = Over-Rated??? — PixelDragon 2012-07-19 07:44
Have you even used Linux? I'm happy using both Windows and Linux. Linux is far more streamlined and gives the user a huge degree of power and flexibility compared to Windows. Windows dominates the OS market share, but that doesn't necessarily make it the best OS. It's bloated to all hell and sluggish. Try running Linux on the same hardware as Windows and see which system runs faster :P Don't be a bunch of whiners, it's good for gaming in general. I'm fully behind Steam moving to Linux. Todd B, you don't need a disclaimer, just do some research. Sheesh!

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# RE: Steam is Coming to Linux — tosh.0 2012-07-18 14:59
You pronounced Ubuntu wrong. Just sayin...

:P

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# I use Linux — Dexterp 2012-07-19 06:33
As a Linux power user I find this to be some amazing and reassuring news. Frozenbyte recently released Trine 2 for Linux which looks amazing and plays great. This is the start of real choice. The one thing that has kept people away from Linux is the lack of gaming.. and as you can see that's not likely to remain a problem for much longer.

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