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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Usage and Setup Help => Topic started by: Spyro543 on January 13, 2013, 12:19:54 pm

Title: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: Spyro543 on January 13, 2013, 12:19:54 pm
I've looked at some websites showing how Minecraft can run faster under Linux, I've been thinking of switching to Debian or Ubuntu. I know Minecraft will work, but what about all my Steam Games?
Which games will work on Ubuntu or Debian?
Which games won't work on Ubuntu or Debian?
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: ElementCoder on January 13, 2013, 12:33:25 pm
Here you go, the list of steam games on linux: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?os=linux&category1=998#category1=998&os=linux&advanced=0&sort_order=ASC&page=1
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: Juju on January 13, 2013, 12:52:52 pm
Some games are still in closed beta, so some games may appear in your library but complains about a missing executable. For some of them, Linux builds exist outside of Steam, for the other games that doesn't work, you might want to try Wine.
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: epic7 on January 13, 2013, 01:11:38 pm
Minecraft was running slower for me on Ubuntu O.O
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: Link on January 13, 2013, 02:45:41 pm
For me its much faster, I kind of like it. As for steam, i couldn't even get the client working on Debian Squeeze, much less a game.
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: Juju on January 13, 2013, 02:56:08 pm
The Steam client works perfectly for me on Arch Linux. You only need enough free disk space. For games, as we said earlier, only games listed will work, otherwise it's broken (missing executable or something).
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: shmibs on January 13, 2013, 03:06:37 pm
spore definitely won't
i don't know about Little Inferno, Sanctum, Universe Sandbox, Super Hexagon, or Puddle
all the others have linux versions, so they either work now or should in the future.

and i've gotten it to run under arch as well. the dumb thing is still flipping the cursor system-wide, though, and there isn't really anything i'd want on steam that isn't on desura, too, so i doubt i'll ever use it.
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: dinosteven on January 13, 2013, 07:31:18 pm
The Portal games aren't on that list??? o.o I was sure they would, being of the Source engine...
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: Juju on January 13, 2013, 07:47:04 pm
I was kinda surprised as well, but that was for Left 4 Dead 2. I think they initially said they were porting L4D, but they went with Team Fortress 2 instead.

I'm pretty sure that once they make sure TF2 works correctly they'll begin to port all the others based on the Source engine.
Title: Re: Steam Games on Ubuntu / Debian
Post by: aeTIos on January 14, 2013, 04:53:03 am
I'm so much waiting for the portal games to be ported to Linux :3