Steam Linux Usage Drops During August

[RussianNeuroMancer]

The biggest problem is drivers. I, for example, have a laptop with an ATI hybrid graphics but I don't run the Catalyst driver because it kills the battery and I couldn't get to configure it properly. So now with a Sandy Bridge GPU games are pretty much unplayable.

What Radeon GPU do you have?

If we get proper drivers support and get it working out of the box, or at least easy to configure, usage will jump.

You are right. Hopefully DPM will be enabled in FOSS radeon driver soon and nVidia came up with decent Optimus solution (at least allow user switch GPU via GUI).

[matzipan]

The problem is Linux has always been used for companies using server's or general desktop use in the IT Industry - it has not originally been made for video gaming, true hard-core linux users wouldn't use steam and once a steam account is created it cannot be removed which would anger some users especially me. I started using linux only for a few years but I generally prefer it when companies like valve stop transferring propriatary content over to linux. Linux is open source and as such so should steam and valve's games if they want people to continue using the companies "product"....

Linux is all purpose. Put some modules in and take some out and you have a hypervisor host, smartphone kernel, fridge controller or car controller... Same with games. I'm not sure what hard-core linux users don't use steam... All the ones I know do use it. By the way, you're talking BS.

[DarkCerberus]

The problem is Linux has always been used for companies using server's or general desktop use in the IT Industry - it has not originally been made for video gaming, true hard-core linux users wouldn't use steam and once a steam account is created it cannot be removed which would anger some users especially me. I started using linux only for a few years but I generally prefer it when companies like valve stop transferring propriatary content over to linux. Linux is open source and as such so should steam and valve's games if they want people to continue using the companies "product"....

[matzipan]

I saw this coming months ago... read my backlog if you don't believe me

also: steambox will be DOA and a huge failure

"Hey kids don't buy ps4's or xbones what you really want is this here mini-pc running linux that you can connect to your TV to run old ass PC games in"

valve will go the way of the dodo, if they were smart they would pouring all their resources into making games like hl3 etc and porting them to all platforms

_everybody_ is playing all those old titles... because they are good. and it's gonna be only a fraction of the cost and the games will cost less... oh snap.

[Pallidus]

I saw this coming months ago... read my backlog if you don't believe me

also: steambox will be DOA and a huge failure

"Hey kids don't buy ps4's or xbones what you really want is this here mini-pc running linux that you can connect to your TV to run old ass PC games in"

valve will go the way of the dodo, if they were smart they would pouring all their resources into making games like hl3 etc and porting them to all platforms

[Bucic]

The way I handle this is to replace the symlinks in ~/.steam with my own pointing to where I moved my whole Steam install to. I have a hdd just for games and I tend to have mutliple versions of Linux installed as I try out new distro releases, they each get a copy of that ~/.steam folder with the custom symlinks so I can easily jump from one distro to another with minimal fuss to access my games.

Wow, you really went over the top there... As stated already changing installation location for steam on linux is as easy as it gets and handled by the steam itself

You can select the folder you like to install games in. Settings > Downloads > steam library folders. Here you can add folders you like to install games in...

[DDF420]

what ?
there is no reason for it not to run

try

http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-steam-on-fedora-19-18-17/

for packing

I think the problem for RHEL 6 and clones like centos/scientific linux was its using glibc-2.12 Steam wants glibc-2.15 or was that Ubuntu-specific glibc-2.15 builds? i can't remember

[IanS]

I would buy and install more titles if it would let me use a different folder to install my games. My linux partition has 20GB and only 2GB free... There's no way I can fit any good titles in that

The way I handle this is to replace the symlinks in ~/.steam with my own pointing to where I moved my whole Steam install to. I have a hdd just for games and I tend to have mutliple versions of Linux installed as I try out new distro releases, they each get a copy of that ~/.steam folder with the custom symlinks so I can easily jump from one distro to another with minimal fuss to access my games.

[gens]

Steam flat out does not run on RHEL or CentOS. Period. It has nothing to do with packaging.

what ?
there is no reason for it not to run

try

http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-steam-on-fedora-19-18-17/

for packing

[jokergermany.de.vu]

Thanks, but i think i will change to 13.10 and then change to 14.04 LTS...