Bought a native Linux game [The Book of Unwritten Tales $4.99 @ 75% off] from Steam. This is big news. For years one of Linux’s weaknesses has been the lack of quality games. It’s one of the two reasons I still keep MS-Windows around…the other being MS-Access. Anyway Steam just released a Linux client which I downloaded/installed. Installation required updating my video driver. Was a little worried about updating video driver so I ghosted [G4L] Mint partition to another drive.
I felt I needed to support Steam as they seem very pro Linux and as a promotion many games discounted 75% or more. In addition it seems like they are working with the video chip designers to fix problems they discover. So far my biggest complaint is that they don’t specify file size for games in advance. The game I chose was 4GB…much larger than anything I’ve previously downloaded. I might have chosen another …smaller game, had I knew the DL size in advance. However they do have pause/resume so you don’t have to DL it all at once. Once installed, the game seems very professional and polished…nice graphics/audio/storyline…so far.