Steam for Linux Beta Launches with 26 Titles

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Valve has released the beta client for Steam for Linux. Team Fortress 2 comes included with the client download (it is free-to-play after all), but if you want to play some other games, you'll be pleased to know that there are a total of 26 Linux games now available on Steam. Most of these titles are indie games, but there is one full-fledged retail game Serious Sam 3: BFE - that sticks out from the bunch.

    Steam for Linux Beta Launches with 26 Titles
     
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    Good to see Valve is not resting on its laurels :D
     
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    AMD already have pretty decent Linux drivers, and also they work much more closely with Linux developers than Nvidia...

    so AMD sucks why??
     
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    Maybe for desktop, but laptop... No, not really.

    The last five distros I tried had extremely lackluster driver support regarding AMD. So as you can see my opinion isn't just subjective, it's fact. Many users will tell you the same thing.
     
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    I agree, coming from an nvidia laptop to an amd one, the driver options and support is pretty lacking.

    At least enduro works better now.
     
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    Great news. Hoping more developers start supporting Linux soon. A free and open source OS is what the PC community needs, shame it's taken so long.
     
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    Agreed with Ghosty. If the same amount games were available on Linux like on Windows, guess what gamers would've choose...
     
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    tonight i'm gonna install ubuntu and dual boot with windows 7...glad i have nvidia gpu's on both my laptop and desktop.
     
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    Wow that's crazy.
    At first I thought it's some kind of a joke. I mean I knew they were fooling around with Linux Steam, L4D2 and TF2, but I didn't expect it so fast.

    Props to Gaben. And Nvidia 2!
     
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    Gave ubuntu 12.10 a go, easy to install anyway, and only takes 5gb.

    But trying to access my root drive where I store all my games and music and what not? No idea.
     
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    fock this sh!t up..Ubuntu 12.10 is buggy as hell, GRUB2 has a lot of graphical errors, no runlevels and many other issues...gonna wait until this matures..
     
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    Any benchmarks yet, if theres no performance boost then i really dont see the point in it. Dont have as much free time as i use too so not interested in having to cmdline everything.

    Though maybe if valve made a stable version of linux that was just as user friendly as windows, then maybe.
     
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    Gamers as in the 99% of which don't even know what linux is?
     
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    Maybe if this turns out to grow, Linux will be made more user friendly, at least Ubuntu. But i will love support for other Linux OS's not only Ubuntu.
     
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    So only 1% of all PC gamers know about Linux? Looking at a couple of forums says otherwise.
     
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    Yep, its like going back 20 years in time for this decision.

    It would need quite a boost to get to windows level of gaming.
     
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    what Linux version are u guys using?
    wanna test it out myself, since im pretty turned on by the linux steam stuff...

    -BetA-
     
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    Need to use Ubuntu 12.04 or higher BetA, the only distro that Steam supports. For now at least.
     
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    hmmm, ok i see....
    Thanks for tha answer...

    edit: Do u guys use 64bit or 32bit?
     
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