Valve Officially Launches Steam For Linux

sl4shd0rk writes "Valve has finally released Steam for Linux. Although some of the 57 games listed on the Linux Steam site are previously released from the Humble Bundles, there are others which should provide adequate entertainment for anyone bored with the HB games. Among the games listed, many at deep discounts of 50%-75% off, are HalfLife, CounterStrke Source and Serious Sam 3. Hopefully Valve will keep the ports coming as rumor has it that Left 4 Dead had been ported at least for developers."

Goodbye Windows

[OhANameWhatName]

It was horrible knowing you.

Re:Goodbye Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

no, its apples to penguins.

Re:Goodbye Windows

[Chris Burke]

Apples to penguins results in an unhappy penguin. Fish to penguins on the other hand leads to fat and happy penguins.

Wait, I think I'm misunderstanding.

Brace yourselves

[arosas]

Allow me to summarize the next five or so hours worth of posts:

Blah blah blah, DRM.
Blah blah blah, "in mother russia".
Blah blah blah, "I, for one, welcome our penguin shaped overlords".
Blah blah blah, "gun control".
Blah blah blah "godwin's law".

You're welcome. (on a side note: wooooo!)

Re:Goodbye Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

No, I think you might be onto something. OpenBSD [wikipedia.org]

Re:Kerosene (Jet fuel) warning

[kestasjk]

Yeah.. wake me up when they have ported it to the OpenBSD pkgsrc system as part of the official set of packages and maybe I'll think about potentially buying a game. (As long as it contains no DRM and is also part of the OpenBSD pkgsrc system as part of the official set of packages, audited by portaudit, of course.)

Re:Linux != Ubuntu

[Anonymous Coward]

The real reason they're doing this is to test the new Ubuntu £inux phones. Those phones have experimental GPS tracking ribbons that transmit your location to the NSA from anywhere in the world along with a list of all the files on your phone. These are the same tracking ribbons used in 20 dollar bills. They have internal power supplies that are as thin as, well, paper, and are based on dark projects. Ubuntu phone is the next step.

Re:No 64-bit?

[zwede]

Which distro might that be?

Gentoo.

Re:Goodbye Windows

[jones_supa]

Many know this site already, but here is a nice overview of the Linux titles: steamlinux.xpaw.ru [steamlinux.xpaw.ru]. Of course there's the Valve's official list [steampowered.com] too.

Re:Goodbye Windows

[arielCo]

Obligatory: xkcd: Extrapolating [xkcd.com]

Re:Goodbye Windows

[elashish14]

Solitaire?