Just to add to this.<div><br></div><div>I have it running on a Chromebook which is running Chrubuntu. This is a 1.1GHz Celeron and it was quite capable of playing Half-Life and a couple of other games.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Many years ago I used to run Steam under Wine on Linux and a surprising number of games ran very well indeed, but yes - the new version is Native. </div><div><br></div><div>This is definitely going to have a positive effect on the Linux platform.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Spode<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Dan Attwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com" target="_blank">danattwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span>from what it looks it uses Wine?</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>
No it's native, the ubuntu version at least doesn't need wine. You just install the deb and off you go. The internals of steam then keep it all upto date. Ubuntu is thew only officially supported platform at the moment but their are packages about for others and valve are happy that this is happening. Allt he games are native as well.</div>
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</div><br><br><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Not all games are fully compatible with Steam on Linux (Given as Direct X and such), it's mostly the Indie games and Valve ones. <br>
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<div><br></div><div>The important thing here though is that the porting of games to linux means a shift away from directx to opengl. Valve have reported that their port of Left for Dead 2 runs much faster under ubuntu/ opengl then it did under windows. Plus any changes they made to opengl have been pushed upstream for the benefit of everyone.</div>
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<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">and as for hardware reqs I wouldn't have the foggyest. <br><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>The hardware regs for steam as very basic. As for the games it's exactly as you would expect for under any os. the fancier the games to better spec you need. When you look at a game in steam it tells you the minimum specs required.</div>
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