I believe this is due to how much Valve hate Windows 8 for gaming. And it's been a much requested feature for years.
I heard most if not all of Valve's own titles have been ported to Linux and many other games too, but it's still a tiny percentage of the total number of games available on Steam. On 15 Feb 2013, at 08:07, Sean Gibbins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Coming in on the periphery of the Linux vs. Microsoft desktop debate is the > news that Steam is now available for Linux: > > http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/ > > > Now, my gaming days are long gone but I have just installed the client - and > will probably uninstall it later if I am honest - and that seemed to go very > smoothly indeed. It looks like you need to be running an nVidia graphics card > to get the best out of it, although that's what I have gleaned from the > install routine that wanted to pull in jockey and some nVidia drivers despite > me having and on-board ATI graphics solution. > > I also note that a bunch of games I bought way back while running it on > Windows don't show up in my Linux catalogue, so I presume that the games > available to Linux users are somewhat limited at this point, but it's a start > I guess. > > Has anybody out there installed and played anything yet? > > And finally, am I right in thinking there's a bit of a kerfuffle kicking off > with some of the big game developers and Microsoft recently that has led some > of them [the developers] to threaten to go all Linux on Microsoft's > posterior? Maybe this is the thin end of that wedge... > > Sean > > -- > music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: > > www.funkygibbins.me.uk > > > -- > Please post to: [email protected] > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
