Steam for Linux (beta) finally available!

La beta de Steam for Linux It is done available, albeit with limited access by Valve. He first group of participants, selected from among more than 60.000 requests made only in its first week, has already been designated, to which more users will be added during the testing.

What's included?

So far, the Team Fortress 2 game is included for free along with the client, although as of today there are already 25 games that we can find within Steam with compatibility under Linux, which you can see in this link.

The Beta client includes, contrary to what had been announced at first, the Big Picture mode, the new Steam functionality that allows you to play with the TV using a controller.

The president of Valve, Gabe Newell, has commented that this Steam client for Linux is a watershed in the development of games for PC since it opens the horizons for many gamers whose base operating system is not Windows, but Linux:

Steam users have been asking us for Linux support for a long time; we are happy to be able to provide different forms of entertainment to all users of this open and friendly platform. "

Who can use it?

If you applied for the Beta and did not receive the invite, don't worry, little by little the number of Beta Testers will expand.

To access this Beta we must fill out use this form from the web version of Steam, through which those responsible for this platform will contact us when we are selected to start testing and playing.

I want it!

The client has already been filtered. Those who do not have an authentic beta key - supposedly - will not be able to play anything, but those who are curious to see it, can download it here:

http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb

Or in Aur

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steam/

How to use the client without being invited

Apparently, once the Steam client has been installed and the updates made, just open a terminal and run the following to gain access without having received the relevant invitation:

steam steam: // store

As you can see, we already found the first error ... although this one works for the benefit of the thousands of gamers who are out there on the loose! Don't expect the client to work like a charm, this is a beta version. Hopefully we will hear of a more stable version in the coming months.