[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Dan Attwood]

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> from what it looks it uses Wine?
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> 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.

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> 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.
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> This is true. There are about 80 games in the linux part of the steam
store at the moment. A mix of indie games and others. Many of the indie
games were also available as part of the Humble Indie bundles, which is why
they have linux versions.

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.



> and as for hardware reqs I wouldn't have the foggyest.
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> 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.
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