Linux games

Ok this sucks, I bought the Humble Bundle purely for the Dungeon Defenders "deal" only to find that the Steam for Linux one is broken :(

Anyway the other games are OK I guess if you looking for games on Linux. Good thing is that you can either redeem em on Steam or use the Ubuntu store option (that again has no Dungeon defender option)
 
For those who haven't noticed yet, the following HL2 games been released for Linux on Steam now:

- HL2
- HL2: Ep1
- HL2: Ep2
- HL2: Lost Coast

Link: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2OTM
In Valve's continued Linux conquest, their latest titles they have ported natively to the penguin platform is Half-Life 2 and many of the add-ons.

Now available for Steam Linux users is Half-Life, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. These games are being offered for now through the Steam Pipe Beta prior to being finalized and the beta-markings removed.

Fire up your Steam Linux client to begin downloading these latest Valve Linux titles. Things are beginning to get scorching hot for Steam on Linux ahead of the SteamBox debut.
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Steam logon in Windows: 212 Games
Exact same logon in Linux: 25 Games

Guess has still some distance to go, and why still no ID Software ports dammit, I didn't buy the complete ID Software pack for fun you know :(
 
This is a pretty big one, Dota 2 is now available on Linux via Steam!

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Screenshot is from a VM so haven't installed it, not like I can test it in virtualbox, but good to see it is there now!
 
Tinuva said:
This is a pretty big one, Dota 2 is now available on Linux via Steam!

Screenshot is from a VM so haven't installed it, not like I can test it in virtualbox, but good to see it is there now!
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Saw that this morning, all I can say is wow.... Gabe is really pushing for this linux thing.
 
Tinuva said:
This is a pretty big one, Dota 2 is now available on Linux via Steam!

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Screenshot is from a VM so haven't installed it, not like I can test it in virtualbox, but good to see it is there now!
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Thanks Ive been waiting for that.
 
Tinuva said:
Probably won't work, unless you also running the "Dota 2 Test" version on windows instead of the normal "Dota 2" version.

But it should be in /home/username/Steam
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Luckily I do have Dota 2 Test. Had a look around, its found in /home/username/.steam
Didn't find that steamapps folder though, think I was too tired last night for it haha

Hopefully that lan patch for Dota 2 a buddy of mine has works
 
What Linux distro are you okes using to play your steam and other linux games on?

I know almost all the games listed for linux works fine on Ubuntu. But what about distros like Mint and Fedora?

Any users out there with experience in these distros?
 
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terencej said:
What Linux distro are you okes using to play your steam and other linux games on?

I know almost all the games listed for linux works fine. But what about distros like Mint and Fedora?

Any users out there with experience in these distros?
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Ubuntu. (With Gnome3 Desktop in my case)
 
terencej said:
What Linux distro are you okes using to play your steam and other linux games on?

I know almost all the games listed for linux works fine on Ubuntu. But what about distros like Mint and Fedora?

Any users out there with experience in these distros?
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Using Mint 15 Mate, and the ones I tried seemed to work without hassles, will still have to try Dota 2 one day just for the hell of it.

Then again Mint = Ubuntu with just some tweaks :D
 
terencej said:
What Linux distro are you okes using to play your steam and other linux games on?

I know almost all the games listed for linux works fine on Ubuntu. But what about distros like Mint and Fedora?

Any users out there with experience in these distros?
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Initially Ubuntu with Openbox as UI.
Then Crunchbang (took some more work to get this to work, there is a debian script that makes it eeasier)

Currently on Archlinux. Apart from Ubuntu being the easiest, Arch it is pretty almost as easy as Ubuntu to get steam to work. The performance however IMHO however is MUCH better than Ubuntu/Debian. That is probably because of a newer kernel and mesa libs, and is the reason why I decided to move my Desktop OS back to Archlinux. Must say, since 2 years ago, Archlinux has become A LOT better.
 
Tinuva said:
Currently on Archlinux. Apart from Ubuntu being the easiest, Arch it is pretty almost as easy as Ubuntu to get steam to work.
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On Manjaro it's as simple as sudo pacman -S steam and it worked without issues.
 
ponder said:
On Manjaro it's as simple as sudo pacman -S steam and it worked without issues.
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yes it is the same on Arch, but I think I had to manually figure out I need lib32-pulse-something for my audio to work which I didn't have initially. Yes yes I like using pulse audio even though most hate it. Also it complained about not having multilib repository enabled and stuff like that, which well wasn't required on Ubuntu, which is why I said, almost as easy as Ubuntu.
 
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