steam-installer
Installer for Valve's Steam digital software delivery system
https://steamcommunity.com/linux17
16 reviews
This package enables Steam to be easily installed via an appstream client on non-i386 systems as long as the i386 foreign architecture is configured. This is the default on Ubuntu, but on Debian, you may need to run as root: dpkg --add-architecture i386; apt update
This package is not needed if you only want to install Steam directly with apt or with a non-appstream client like Synaptic.
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Better than all the other competition on Windows, and the competition just isn't here on linux. It works, reliably, and the effort is commendable.
Steam is doing phenomenal work for Linux gaming community. Steam is the most straight-forward and no-hassle way to make pretty much any game work flawlessly on Linux.
Amazing work overall. In case someone gets the bug where steam becomes invisble, here's a possible solution: 1. enter big picture mode, then leave it (this will make steam visible again) 2. then go to settings, overlay and deactivate gpu accelaration
Have had the same issues as two other users in the reviews, steam worked fine until today. It "opens" you can see it in the task bar and in your active processes. It will try to log you in and you can see that, but beyond that its like the others say an invisible window appears. Only fix was reinstalling with a system restart
Works great, only problem I had with it is that I have to start it up through the terminal, but besides that! Works flawlessly and makes it stupid easy to play games on linux.
Its just installer, not standalone pkg, but lets be real. steam official website gives installer too, which then download steam. So it works for what its made, and its really great. kudos to developers for making this easy gaming on linux now.
Works great and Steam proton is something amazing, you can play pretty much every windows game on linux with it.
This is working stock, no betas, no proton, just play. (proprietary nvidia driver) TF2 CS
Steam properly launched only the first time after installation. Unfortunately, the app-icon in the start menu does not launch steam and I have to start steam via the terminal with the command "steam" to launch properly. Apart from that, it works well for me.
4 weeks after DarkRacoon, and I have the same problem. Steam kind of launches, shows up like an invisble window, then closes again. I also need to kill the Steam process, uninstall through Software Manager and then re-install again. All games are still installed, so it's just annoying to re-install Steam itself. And btw, yes I have ran the dpkg apt update mentioned in the Details section.
Because I was a totally new Linux user fresh from Windows I will be as exact and clear as possible for anyone who also has the same first experience as me: The Software manager installs this client, the client must be run separately to install Steam. It will not automatically open and install Steam without user say so. (Aside from that 3 seconds of confusion working that out my experience has been that it works smoothly and easily. Just don't forget to go into Steam> settings> compatibility, in the Steam client itself and check/turn on compatibility mode for all games as this wasn't on by default when it first loaded up for me.)
This application does not work properly for me. After restarting the system, the program does not want to start and quits and runs forever. It is difficult for me to explain it in words. The only way to "solve" this problem is to uninstall the application and reinstall it.
I find this client to be satisfactory for the most part. Things such as that I cannot snap the client into place like other programs or the occasional stutter and freeze dampen my experience with it. It does work however and is used on my system on a daily basis! Tested on Linux Mint 22.
