I like the idea. But I feel steam is just no worth my time and money.

I'm glad Linux friends can get in on this.

Very interesting. I was just trying Linux/Ubuntu the other day via USB, and was wondering why no support from Steam/Valve towards Linux, and now this. Things are looking up for those users, although I almost was one of them.

I don't even know anyone who use Linux, but this is good news. More people get to experience the awesomeness that is Steam (And Valve).

Why would people use Linux for gaming?

The thing that worries me is the number of games I can play on Linux. Would they all come over with Steam?

that would be great! but. what about the games? some games cant install nor launch game application (or such) in the Linux system.

This isn't the thing that vavle started to ask for beta a couple of weeks ago right?

No thanks.

I'm really excited about this, but I'm not sure if I'm an experienced enough user.  I guess it can't hurt to fill out the survey.

Finally. The one thing that keeps me running back to Win, is the lack of games on Linux platforms.

Sure, you have some humble bundles, and you can get most things working, with wine, but when you play something (hardware) intensive, you want less things to run in the background, not a whole emulated OS.

Glad Valve does this.

YESH!

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Well, I guess this gives me a reason to try out Steam, now.

Although, don't they know we could run this with Wine and Winetricks?

Then again, I hear some games won't download.

I love this. Once steam gets all it's games ported over to linux, I will never use windows or mac os ever again! Horray!!

might have to reinstall linux

Nah.

I'm interested, but I won't be in.

I'm willing to beta test Steam ( I'm running Linux atm) but I wonder if I have to redownload my games? I have windows dual booted for gaming but I can access my window's "hard drive" from Linux. I wonder if it is necessary to redownload the game for Linux or if I can run them from my windows partition.

Major win for Linux. I am still a long way off from converting away from Microsoft. I was really negative on Windows 8 but am am slowly being won over. I really like the Sky feature and the Windows Store can't be all bad. If they enable you to merge your XBox Live account into the Windows 8 storefront, I'll be sold!

I don't even know what Linux is.