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by Kyle Hilliard on October 27, 2012 at 04:37 PM
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Valve is readying Steam, the online video game distribution service, for Linux, but it needs some help making sure it works.

If you're a Linux user, and you want to lend a hand/get your hands on Steam for Linux a little early, head here and sign up for the beta.

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  • by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 04:43 PM
    I like the idea. But I feel steam is just no worth my time and money.
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    by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 04:45 PM

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

  • by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 04:46 PM
    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.
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    by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 04:55 PM
    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).
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    by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 05:01 PM
    Why would people use Linux for gaming?
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    by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 05:03 PM
    The thing that worries me is the number of games I can play on Linux. Would they all come over with Steam?
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    by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 05:09 PM
    that would be great! but. what about the games? some games cant install nor launch game application (or such) in the Linux system.
  • by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 06:04 PM
    This isn't the thing that vavle started to ask for beta a couple of weeks ago right?
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    by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 06:36 PM

    No thanks.

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    by Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 06:45 PM

    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.

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    by Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 04:17 AM

    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.

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    by Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 10:24 AM

    YESH!

    ...

    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.

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    by Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 01:11 PM

    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!!

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    by Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 03:12 PM

    might have to reinstall linux

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    by Sunday, October 28, 2012 at 07:53 PM

    Nah.

  • by Monday, October 29, 2012 at 12:50 AM

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

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    by Monday, October 29, 2012 at 12:52 AM
    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.
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    by Monday, October 29, 2012 at 12:54 PM

    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!

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    by Saturday, November 03, 2012 at 01:08 AM

    I don't even know what Linux is.