Today is the first lucky ones to mailboxes fell invitation to the closed beta of the Steam client for Linux, which was announced in the official community:
«"The first wave of invites sent!
If you have completed a survey*, but you have not received a letter, do not despair. We will expand the beta in the future a large number of respondents.
Thank you for your support to help release Steam for
Linux, Team Valve Linux. »
(Poll - a survey conducted recently at the site Valve,
in which anyone could fill in some information about
your Linux-e and iron).
Steam came in the form of deb-package for architecture i686, which you can download at
media.steampowered.com/client/ installer/steam.deb
Steam the shop appeared search for games available for Linux, which is not so much, mostly the fact that previously sold in Humble Bundle.
Here is the official group dedicated to the discussion of beta client for Linux.
What if I do not come to invite?
Wait. And if you do not want to wait, for there
ArchLinux PKGBUILD informal, in which, among other things, including bypassing the error message pop, if you did not come to invite. The efficiency of the author notes are not tested. Users of other distributions may try to create a file/usr/bin/steam-hack, comprising:
#!/Bin/bash
xdg-open steam://open/friends/
and run with it Steam. Work is not guaranteed.
