I believe this is due to how much Valve hate Windows 8 for gaming. And it's been a much requested feature for years.
I heard most if not all of Valve's own titles have been ported to Linux and many other games too, but it's still a tiny percentage of the total number of games available on Steam.
On 15 Feb 2013, at 08:07, Sean Gibbins <sean@???> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
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> Coming in on the periphery of the Linux vs. Microsoft desktop debate is the news that Steam is now available for Linux:
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> http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/
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>
> Now, my gaming days are long gone but I have just installed the client - and will probably uninstall it later if I am honest - and that seemed to go very smoothly indeed. It looks like you need to be running an nVidia graphics card to get the best out of it, although that's what I have gleaned from the install routine that wanted to pull in jockey and some nVidia drivers despite me having and on-board ATI graphics solution.
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> I also note that a bunch of games I bought way back while running it on Windows don't show up in my Linux catalogue, so I presume that the games available to Linux users are somewhat limited at this point, but it's a start I guess.
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> Has anybody out there installed and played anything yet?
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> And finally, am I right in thinking there's a bit of a kerfuffle kicking off with some of the big game developers and Microsoft recently that has led some of them [the developers] to threaten to go all Linux on Microsoft's posterior? Maybe this is the thin end of that wedge...
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> Sean
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