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koncertejo has Steam for Linux

23 Jan, 2017 @ 4:26pm

Allow us to download non-linux game files on our Steam for Linux installations

Thanks to the work of the WINE project a significant amount of Steam games that are not available on Linux are still able to be played flawlessly. I'd like to recommend that instead of forcing us to maintain two separate Steam installs (one for Linux, one for WINE), that you instead allow us to download our Windows games on Linux and attempt to run them through WINE (perhaps provide a disclaimer pointing out the instability of this option). This feature would be much appreciated.

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Oerthling

24 Jan, 2017 @ 2:07pm

This has been requested many times - and it will never happen.
Not because of technical reasons - but because to Valve this would be a costly support disaster.
As soon as they include this feature some percentage of people will expected support for that and Valve would have to explaion all day why customers should instead go to winehq.

It would be nice for us - but it's a no-win for Valve.
And given the cheap storage prices nowadays where a GB of storage only costs cents (even SSD costs are falling) - extra installations of a few GB aren't such a big problem. Just an inconvenience.

Bobtail Squid has Steam for Linux

17 Oct, 2017 @ 4:52am

Yeah it should have a pop up when you try to download a windows game saying "system not supported" then under that there should be a "I know what i'm doing" box/link & then it will download into a steamapps-not-supported directory