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Wow, Valve really have an uphill battle. They have to support a whole bevvy of distros, and for what, a fraction of their userbase? It makes me despair at fragmentation.
Props to them though, I'm installing Ubuntu on my (previously Windows only) desktop tonight to lend my support to their efforts. Wherever possible I'll log into the Linux version. I'll maybe dual boot Arch and see if I can get it up-and-running on that too.
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Originally posted by kaprikawn View PostWow, Valve really have an uphill battle. They have to support a whole bevvy of distros, and for what, a fraction of their userbase? It makes me despair at fragmentation.
Props to them though, I'm installing Ubuntu on my (previously Windows only) desktop tonight to lend my support to their efforts. Wherever possible I'll log into the Linux version. I'll maybe dual boot Arch and see if I can get it up-and-running on that too.
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One of the reasons of this beta is also to see how hard it will be to support more distros.
1 Native Steam on Linux Beta Client
1.1 openSUSE / SUSE
1.2 Gentoo
1.3 Fedora
1.4 Arch Linux
Those 4 distro's are also the ones named most in the steam forums.
It needs to start somewhere. I'm using Archlinux and still enjoying it after they removed rc.conf. I don't use any proper DE. Compiz is my Window Manager and I borrow some apps from LXDE, XFCE and Gnome. That's a bit messy but I like it so far.
To me it looks arch and suse are quite the same, atleast as far as steam.
Problems and solutions are mostly the same.
I installed ndispluginwrapper to get flash (32bit) working in steam.
This solution also helped someone on Ubuntu 64 bit.
I played already over 30 hours of Teamfortress 2 on linux. ( openSUSE 12.2 64bit)
Currently the steam package is taken offline from the SUSE odb, because of license questions.
Valve is working though on a new eula which allows to repackage steam for other distro's.
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Originally posted by kaprikawn View PostWow, Valve really have an uphill battle. They have to support a whole bevvy of distros, and for what, a fraction of their userbase? It makes me despair at fragmentation.
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