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Steam available on Linux soon?

There have been rumours about Linux support in Steam for months, but yesterday a friend pointed me at http://store.steampowered.com/app/900804/

If you look at the bottom of the page, you’ll see this:

linux-steam

So, if it’s not a typo, we could have a pretty good surprise soon :)

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6 Responses to “Steam available on Linux soon?”

  1. леха says:
    June 19, 2009 at 8:58 am

    anyway, linux has bad performance for games.

  2. Steven says:
    June 19, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Well, it depends if you have a correct 3D driver…

  3. леха says:
    June 19, 2009 at 9:39 am

    hmm i have correct one, opensorce one, ati. with no correct 3d support.

    but i also tried nvidia binary on other machines, 1.5 – 2x times slower then under windows.

  4. Steven says:
    June 19, 2009 at 9:48 am

    Yes, you need the proprietary drivers to get correct 3D performance for now. I have the opposite experience with OpenGL games, Linux performance is slightly better than on Windows (X-Plane for example). Of course if you use DirectX games with Wine, Windows should be better as expected :)

  5. леха says:
    June 19, 2009 at 9:51 am

    Try openarena/quake3 for comparison. Windows has better performance in those games.

    Also opensource-ati driver wont run any wine games.. bad opensource. bad ati.

  6. Steven says:
    June 19, 2009 at 12:14 pm

    Ok, it looks like this whole Steam thing was a typo. The game will be available on Linux, but not trough Steam. See http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17769#post79168

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