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Linux Steam Client Beta Applications now open
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wishblade
Senior Member
Signed-up too. Been waiting for this for a long long time... No response yet either, so maybe they are still in their processing phase..
Avenue
Expert Member
I cant wait. Picked or not I'll still buy the game full price to support this initiative. Maaan i've been waiting a long time for this.
Avenue
Expert Member
I already own most the games that are rumoured as the initial releases but being able to play them on Linux is niceI assume that ownership will be cross platform like the Mac/ Windows model they currently use.
Probably would be I'd guess. must say, I was really tempted to get left for dead this past weekend at 75% off...
wishblade
Senior Member
Same. Only games I have these days are for the console. No windows, so no guarantee of a working game.I used to love paying around with Wine to try get the game to work, but then more productive things ate into the time spent doing that, and eventually I just stopped bothering. Now I use the console for any gaming. But would be nice to get back to doing some PC gaming (was just commenting on this the other day amongst friends), and without the need to have a windowz install. Sounds like magic to my ears.
Avenue
Expert Member
+ not having to pay the crazy prices of console games is great.
I'm looking forward to the day I can uninstall windows for good
MyWorld
Executive Member
They want advanced Linux users but only list Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora as their choices... Why not just a general "source based distro/rolling release distro" that would include Gentoo, Arch, Slackware, etc.
Avenue
Expert Member
They want advanced Linux users but only list Ubuntu, Mint and Fedora as their choices... Why not just a general "source based distro/rolling release distro" that would include Gentoo, Arch, Slackware, etc.
This is more of an ubuntu release at the moment than a linux release- Guess they want to introduce as few problems as possible. I'm sure it will expand to include the other distros soon.
Tinuva
The Magician
Well their plan is to release a client to the public before the end of the year, whether that will be the final or open beta who knows. Either way, once more and more games come to Linux, the faster I won't have to worry about having Windows licenses anymore, so hopefully Windows 7 will be the last Windows OS on my gaming pc...if it lasts long enough for Steam to become stable ect.
Personally, of the 3 games they will have in this closed beta, I want to play Serious Sam 3 the most.
Personally, of the 3 games they will have in this closed beta, I want to play Serious Sam 3 the most.
Avenue
Expert Member
I only knew about LFD? what's the other game?
Tinuva
The Magician
MyWorld
Executive Member
TF2 runs great on wine, have been playing it for ages now. Will be interesting to see it run natively.
From what I've read some of the games they ported get higher fps on linux than on windows.
wishblade
Senior Member
Yep, that was when they were still doing the porting of L4D2. Not sure about the other games on demo, but would expect something similar from them as well..
How to test it out without a beta invite: http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/11/steam-linux-beta-launched-how-to.html
I still can't get TF2 to work though. But titles that I own and already have a linux release are working, such as World of Goo, Braid, Dungeons of Dredmore and Uplink.
I still can't get TF2 to work though. But titles that I own and already have a linux release are working, such as World of Goo, Braid, Dungeons of Dredmore and Uplink.
It starts up fine, but then informs me it's a closed beta, and closes. Looks like they closed it down for now.
EDIT: NM. maybe I should read the article correctly.
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