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Author:  soddit112 [ Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Steam for Linux Officially Released
http://hexus.net/gaming/news/industry/5 ... -software/

And, in true Valve style, log into TF2 on Linux before March 1st to get a wearable Tux penguin. I already have mine :mrgreen:
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Steam for Linux Officially Released
the year of linux has arrives, or was that last year, or the year before or....
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:13 am ]
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bobbdobbs wrote:
the year of linux has arrives, or was that last year, or the year before or....

Next year. It's always next year.
Author:  Linux_User [ Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:43 am ]
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bobbdobbs wrote:
the year of linux has arrives, or was that last year, or the year before or....

Linux is currently pwning the mobile space.
Author:  JJW009 [ Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:06 am ]
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Linux_User wrote:
Linux is currently pwning the mobile space.

It's been pwning pretty much everything with a processor for many years, from busy-box routers and set top boxes to heavy iron servers.

It's just "the desktop" which always seems to be coming "next year".

As I commented on the news thread, I do think the release of Steam is a very significant milestone in that quest. Of course it needs support from developers, but now there's an easy way to distribute I believe that will come. There's already a good number available, including Half Life and Counter Strike for example:

http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/
Author:  bobbdobbs [ Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:34 pm ]
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JJW009 wrote:
There's already a good number available, including Half Life and Counter Strike for example:

http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

apart from CS and HL there is nothing that would encourage me to use linux again.
Author:  JJW009 [ Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:52 pm ]
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bobbdobbs wrote:
JJW009 wrote:
There's already a good number available, including Half Life and Counter Strike for example:

http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

apart from CS and HL there is nothing that would encourage me to use linux again.

This is week 1. It's not a bad start.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:00 am ]
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JJW009 wrote:
This is week 1. It's not a bad start.

Indeed. When the Mac version of Steam launched it had little other than Valve titles on it (although to be fair it did have Portal 2 which was pretty new at that time). It'll almost certainly become the distribution method of choice for people who were making Linux games anyway, the question is whether it's existence will attract big name developers to make linux ports to sell through it. That's the bit that only time will tell.
Author:  JJW009 [ Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:17 am ]
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It's always a chicken-egg problem. I'm hoping that porting to Linux isn't actually that much work any more, so even selling a few hundred copies would recoup the cost and gain favour with the community.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:53 am ]
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jonbwfc wrote:
Indeed. When the Mac version of Steam launched it had little other than Valve titles on it (although to be fair it did have Portal 2 which was pretty new at that time). It'll almost certainly become the distribution method of choice for people who were making Linux games anyway, the question is whether it's existence will attract big name developers to make linux ports to sell through it. That's the bit that only time will tell.


There were 57 titles at launch, including Portal - Portal 2 didn't ship until 2011.
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