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Steam Closed Beta Now Live!

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Thanks to the Steam group chat it has been revealed that Steam will go live today when someone pointed this out, the news comes thanks to Nvidia's news here dated today with the release of an improved graphics driver.
QuoteAvailable for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today.


Linux is also now available as a filter for finding games on the official website: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=#os=linux&advanced=0&sort_order=ASC&page=1

Steam also has some planned Downtime today at 11PM GMT (16:00 PDT) so it could well be a late night release for me.

UPDATE: media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb
Update 2: It's officially on - and i didn't get in :( http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/882965118606625844/
Update 3: Over 60,000 people wanted in on the beta! http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/

So people, are you ready? What will be your first purchase on the Steam Linux client?

Ps. Add me to your Steam - "liamdawe" Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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MeteorBlume Nov 6, 2012
Place steam icon to unity bar. Right click , Marketplace. Now switch to library. No popup. Download a game. Try gaming.
I am downloading Killing floor now
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
I guess it's time to install Unity then...
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6173, member: 1"I guess it's time to install Unity then...


Maybe you can set how will the links be launched from Firefox? Check about:config, I think you could pop optirun before it.

Also, I love Unity!
Bumadar Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6171, member: 1"Can't do it that way as i need to run a custom command to even get it to run - dual graphics chip :/


Liamdawe, steam is started with the steam.sh script, simply edit that script, add your command before it executes the steam binary
Liam Dawe Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "Bumadar, post: 6175, member: 93"Liamdawe, steam is started with the steam.sh script, simply edit that script, add your command before it executes the steam binary


Hmm which line to edit?
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Dammit, I can't launch KF, it doesn't have the binaries.

And I hoped I'd be able to play it without crashing...
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Nevermind, I see - you need a password for the Linux beta in this case.

What a sad sad day...
aaannz Nov 6, 2012
Managed to get it working under openSUSE w KDE4.9.3. I had to install mozilla-nss-32bit and libpng12 (strace as debugger was very helpful). And "steam://run/22000" to start download world-of-goo.
I encountered problem with missing tray icon so currently steam is "working" in background but no idea how to show its window. :D
Anon Nov 6, 2012
Seems like some apps fail to install, I can't get Osmos or VVVVVV to download, they stop instantly and just leave empty folders.
Kame Nov 6, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 6176, member: 1"Hmm which line to edit?


Probably easier (and less liekly to break with updates) Launch steam by running the following command (or something like it) "xdg-open steam://library".

As far as I can tell as long as steam is opened using and xdg link then it won't give you the "No Linux for you" window
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