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Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application
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- pdknsk 14y agoI can only guess this isn't being upvoted to not make other potential applicants aware of it! :D
- Intermediate 14y agoThere are just not so many Linux users over there.
- jabbernotty 14y agoEither that, or people are just too busy filling it out.
- aw3c2 14y agoOr people just don't care. Or they know that it is Ubuntu only. Or they do not use Linux. Or they do not use Steam. ;-)
- levesque 14y agoGaming is just time spent not hacking ;) I myself do need a break once in a while, but some people seem to never stop and/or just don't like games (anymore).
- AYBABTME 14y agoIt was already posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4701873 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4701873 I guess that's why it's not being upvoted.
- optymizer 14y agothat post only mentioned the Linux Group. At that time, there was no news about a Linux Survey. The group was empty and all you could do is join the group, but there was no mention of a survey. So it seems unfair to me that this would not get upvoted because of the post you mentioned.
- AYBABTME 14y agoI don't know if it's unfair. I know I followed yesterday's link and completed the survey there. So in my perception, this is a duplicate and I think that's why it's not upvoted. I don't see what fairness has to do with the success or failure of a submission.
- jiggy2011 14y agoAlready filled this in. 2 Problems with it: For some reason in chrome on ubuntu all of the text inside the select boxes is white on white so you have to select options to read them. They specify that they are looking for "experience linux users" so if you want to game the survey you can answer the "how many years have you used linux?" dishonestly.
- Symmetry 14y agoAlso, I couldn't list both my desktop and my laptop, even though I'd install Steam on both.
- rmk2 14y agoI experienced the same behaviour with Chromium 24 on openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64. Looks like a good start for a more linux-centered experience, doesn't it? ;) [edit] Put in a smiley at the end of the second sentence to convey my less-than-serious take on the matter, which did not succeed to keep me from signing up... [/edit]
- drivebyacct2 14y agoYeah, some CSS and GTK+ interactions is definitely useful data to make conclusions about whether or not the Steam client or Source engine run well in Linux... (Neither of which (are likely to) use GTK+ anyway at that).
- sliverstorm 14y agoClearly a polished GUI is not requisite for good compatibility/performance, but it certainly is a canary-in-the-coal-mine indicator for other less visible bits. Basically, if they haven't had time yet to fix things like unreadable menus, that gives you an idea of how close to RTM quality the underpinnings are.
- jiggy2011 14y agoTo be fair I imagine the client itself is much higher quality. This just looks like a php form someone threw together in half an hour. Valve has a "work on what you want" policy so I imagine most of their developers are more interested in building the games and steam itself than survey websites.
- secure 14y agoFor the people without a steam account: They are asking about several hardware details (CPU, GPU, resolution, amount of monitors, RAM) and will notify "selected people" in a few days.
- sirspazzolot 14y agoIt only showed me a "submit response" button and no questions. So I clicked it and now I can't redo it.
- Qutryte 14y agoYeah, same problem yesterday for me. I don't know if this will lower the chance to get in the beta, but I sure hope it doesn't.
- mintplant 14y agoContact support?
- sirspazzolot 14y agoI did, though there isn't really a spot for it. I doubt they'll do anything, but oh well. No big deal.
- tjdetwiler 14y agoOne issue I have with steam is you need the client to reset your password. I no longer have a windows machine to do that from.
- lvillani 14y agoSteam runs well enough with recent releases of Wine (I also had remarkably good experiences running Source games on it, i.e.: Half Life 2).
- ChrisClark 14y agoIt must be great by now. I was regularly playing TF2 in Wine 4-5 years ago, it was good enough for me then.
- tjdetwiler 14y agoI figured it out eventually, it just seemed odd to leave password reset out of the web interface.
- ensmotko 14y agoI don't really understand why they need to limit the number of beta testers - I think it was said that only about 1000 users will get access to the beta client.
- pja 14y agoBecause it's probably going to fail to cope with all the weird and wonderful Linux installations out there to start with & they'd rather it didn't gain a reputation as being a buggy sack of offal. It's hardly unusual for companies to have a limited beta before they open out to a wider audience.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThey are soliciting feedback and testing, they would rather have quality than quantity. What they don't want is thousands of forums full of posts saying "OMG it crashez steam4Linux sux"
- Inufu 14y agoWhy do they assume that I'll be only testing on either laptop or desktop?
- jtchang 14y agoDownvote more...I'm greedy and want to be the first to use Steam on Linux. On a more serious note this bodes really well for gaming and software distribution on linux.
- hollerith 14y agoSubmissions cannot be downvoted. (They can be flagged, but that is supposed to be reserved for spam and other egregious violations of norms.)
- goggles99 14y agoWhy should I install this when I sill still have to boot into windows to play all the games that are worth playing (of the games I am not already tired of)? This should not even be news IMO. So mamy people say WebOS and Windows 8/RT will never gain prominence because they don't have the games of IOS/Android - Yet Linux gets a steam client and all I hear is excitement. do yo think that game devs want to create games for a 2% desktop market? Nice double standard there - I understand it, but it is still an agenda/bias that I wish to call out.
- ergo14 14y agohumble indie bundle - there are plenty of good native games/ports for linux.
- goggles99 14y agoPlenty for who??? not the Main Stream/Typical/Average PC gamer. The numbers are not on your side so how can you back up your statement.
- taybin 14y agoThey have to start somewhere. Why are you so negative about this?
- mercurial 14y agoIt's a chicken and egg problem. At least we'll soon have the chicken. More seriously, game developpers will be much more encouraged to develop for Linux if they have a delivery system, especially given how Unity is becoming more and more popular.
- goggles99 14y ago>They have to start somewhere. Why are you so negative about this? I am merely pointing out a bias and double standard.
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- darkstalker 14y agoBeing an Ubuntu user is required? or can be run on any other distro?
- zanny 14y agoIt gives an option on distro, and it seems to be anything that uses debs.
- darkstalker 14y agoYou can extract deb's with 'ar vx file.deb' and then manually install, but I guess they want to test only on debian based compatible distros.