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It's also an usability nightmare, as a lot of things that Steam is used for both update very often (weekly to daily), and always need to be kept updated to the

It's also an usability nightmare, as a lot of things that Steam is used for both update very often (weekly to daily), and always need to be kept updated to the newest version or they fail to start. You'd have to run a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade every time you launch your favourite game. Most likely, Valve will provide a steam_installer.deb, which depends on all platform libraries Steam needs, and which only contains a script that creates the necessary users and rights, reserves some directory for steam, fetches the actual Steam off a Valve site, authenticates it, and runs it.

jiggy2011 14y ago
Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time. I guess this is for performance reasons, but I'm sure my PC can run Braid and do some disk IO at the same time. I also can't find a way to have different games installed on different partitions/drives. This would be very useful if you have an SSD but can't fit all of your games onto it.
- Tuna-Fish 14y ago
  > I also can't find a way to have different games installed on different partitions/drives. This would be very useful if you have an SSD but can't fit all of your games onto it. You can do this by moving the directories in question into the other disk, and then creating a junction (symbolic link) from the original location to the new one. On windows 7: mklink /j "path/to/steam/steamapps/common/gamefolder" "path/to/the/other/disk/gamefolder"
  - jiggy2011 14y ago
    Thanks, will try that. Shame this isn't made a bit easier.
- GreenNight 14y ago
  >Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time. You can do it manually. Activate the game to play, alt-tab to Steam. Library, view the downloads. The download will be suspended, pause it and then you can unpause it and it'll resume downloading. Alt-tab back to the game. Lots of work, but it works (or at least I think it did when I last tried it).
morsch 14y ago
The post I was replying to was talking about Linux software distribution in general. I wasn't suggesting using the package as a delivery mechanism for Steam software, which seems like a pretty silly idea.

jiggy2011 14y ago

Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time. I guess this is for performance reasons, but I'm sure my PC can run Braid and do some disk IO at the same time. I also can't find a way to have different games installed on different partitions/drives. This would be very useful if you have an SSD but can't fit all of your games onto it.

Tuna-Fish 14y ago
> I also can't find a way to have different games installed on different partitions/drives. This would be very useful if you have an SSD but can't fit all of your games onto it. You can do this by moving the directories in question into the other disk, and then creating a junction (symbolic link) from the original location to the new one. On windows 7: mklink /j "path/to/steam/steamapps/common/gamefolder" "path/to/the/other/disk/gamefolder"
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  Thanks, will try that. Shame this isn't made a bit easier.
GreenNight 14y ago
>Steam has it's own usability issues though. For example it won't let me play a game and download a game at the same time. You can do it manually. Activate the game to play, alt-tab to Steam. Library, view the downloads. The download will be suspended, pause it and then you can unpause it and it'll resume downloading. Alt-tab back to the game. Lots of work, but it works (or at least I think it did when I last tried it).

morsch 14y ago

The post I was replying to was talking about Linux software distribution in general. I wasn't suggesting using the package as a delivery mechanism for Steam software, which seems like a pretty silly idea.