[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Andrew Spode Miller]

Just to add to this.

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.

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.

This is definitely going to have a positive effect on the Linux platform.

Spode

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Dan Attwood <danattwood at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> from what it looks it uses Wine?
>>
>> 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.
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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