[Klug-general] Steam on Linux

[Paul Lenton]

I can't get steam to run on my pc at all, despite the fairly reasonable
specs (2.7 amd Athlon, 3gb ram, ubuntu 12.10) - something to do with OpenGL
that I haven't been able to sort to date
On 22 Feb 2013 11:23, "Andrew Spode Miller" <spode at justfdi.com> wrote:

> 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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