As Slackware user i have Steam running but not as i would like to. I'm very happy that Valve is working on Steam being more distro independent but i also hope that they will ditch pulse audio dependency. Looks like TF2 will not give any sound without pulseaudio where eg. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP does not care about it and works just fine.

Regarding /home placement i got no problems. I would like to have a package but ... all user custom files still should be stored in /home/user anyway which pretty much will gives same effect.
Desura does the same thing and again all works fine. If something is not working user can always tinker with it eg. missing static libs or wrong symlinks.

Moaning about such trivial things remind me windows users who expects press the button and don't care. Haters gonna hate anyway. I love the idea of Steam on Linux for a long time. Future is now.

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