Steam for Linux

[Fell Open Ian]

The beta is now live and while you probably weren't invited you can totally crash the party:

http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb

A normal launch will result in a not allowed dialog which closes the client but if you use the jumplist (right click on the Steam icon) then you can get right in.

For non-Ubuntu/Unity users you can use (in terminal):
steam steam://store

 

[DD83]

Cool, tried it out on opensuse 12.1, but it requires glibc 2.15.
Oh well, maybe it'll be out of beta once I feel like upgrading again.

Course, that's the only incompatibility I know of, might've been more. :lol:

 

[Megazell]

All of my plans are lining up nicely. STEAM on LINUX is pure bonus.

 

[viiral]

excellent

 

[jkam]

Has anyone played anything yet? How's performance?

 

[Megazell]

[quote name='jkam']Has anyone played anything yet? How's performance?[/QUOTE]

Anything on STEAM or in general on Linux?

I have a slew of Linux games that run like water.

On STEAM I played Quake II, Spiral Knights and Hard Reset and they ran awesomely!

 

[jkam]

[quote name='Megazell']Anything on STEAM or in general on Linux?

I have a slew of Linux games that run like water.

On STEAM I played Quake II, Spiral Knights and Hard Reset and they ran awesomely![/QUOTE]

Sorry yeah just meant on Steam...good to hear.