There are several possible reasons that this could be the case, among them that the proprietary drivers are known to offer slightly higher 3D performance. In the grand OSNews tradition, now that I’ve said a few words about what is ostensibly the topic, I’d like to take a moment to prance, preen and provoke.Īs of right now, getting actual games to work will require installing the proprietary drivers for your platform. So users of slightly more obscure distributions (I’m using Mint/Debian here at school) are S.O.L., and can probably expect to be so for a while. It remains to be seen if Valve will provide packages for other distributions, but I won’t be shocked if they don’t – or if they do as Dropbox, Skype and Google have done, and provide packages only for the latest Ubuntu and Fedora distributions.
It bears repeating that the limited distribution availability fits with Valve’s primary objective in porting Steam to linux – enabling an Ubuntu-Linux-based Steambox. deb available, and the client will require closed-source GPU drivers in order to work. So far, they appear to only be making an Ubuntu.
It seems to have so far escaped OSNews’ notice (if the top few hits for a site-search for ‘Steam’ is any indication) that Steam for Linux is now in Open Beta you can get the Linux steam client from.
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