steam-installer
Installer for Valve's Steam digital software delivery system
https://steamcommunity.com/linux25
20 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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Very often it does not open properly and the main window does not get rendered properly/blends in the background. Needs multiple restarts to work if at all.
Once you toggle on "Enable Steam Play for all other titles", it's smooth sailing. You can use its compability layer for a variety of local windows games and applications, so it's handy even if you don't use the store. No errors, but it's slow to launch the Steam client for me (on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, using integrated AMD). Proprietary, but Proton is open.
Without Steam most of us would find Linux too difficult (custom wine setups) to be workable in daily use. Proton and the ease of setup are huge steps forward in making Linux capable of easily running most games (and other Windows apps!)
Steam is the only reason why I was able to switch to linux completely. Thanks to proton almost all games run flawlessly.
Steam has worked pretty much since download with little issues getting games to work smooth as silk. Ryzen 7 5800x with 6800XT vid card. Forza Horizon 5, Sniper Elite Resistance, BG 3 were my big concerns before migrating to Linux and it's been a none issue. Ghost Recon Wildlands, Dirt 4, Solastra... Everything just ... works! It's awesome!
Steam is absolutely fantastic and one of the few, perhaps the only, proprietary software allowed on my PC! Plus, the developers are giving more to the Linux community than one piece of open-source software ever could! If it doesn't start, press Alt+F2, type "steam" there, press Enter.
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.