On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Joakim Hernberg <j...@alchemy.lu> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:06:36 -0500 > Daniel Micay <danielmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Joakim Hernberg <j...@alchemy.lu> >> wrote: >> > >> > Not to mention that the package seems to install a wine version of >> > steam that is in closed beta, which makes it less than useful for >> > the majority of us. >> >> It doesn't use Wine (it's native), and it works without being in the >> private beta (chat, installing a couple dozen indie games). You just >> can't play the native ports of big titles (tf2, serious sam 3, etc.) >> without being in the private beta. > > Ah, sorry about the wine allegation, it looked just like running it > in wine and is multiilb with lib32 stuff. My mistake, I should > have verified before opening my mouth. > > When I try to login with my steam account I get told that: "This version > of Steam is currently in closed beta. Login with an enrolled account to > continue" http://dl.dropbox.com/u/879835/steam-beta.png > > -- > > Joakim
If you aren't in the beta, you can start it by running `steam steam://open/games' (or another steam page), or by clicking a steam link from your browser. As far as I can tell, they made it easy to work around the "private" part intentionally, but it makes it clear that you shouldn't expect support yet.
