On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Joakim Hernberg <jbh@alchemy.lu> wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:06:36 -0500 Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Joakim Hernberg <jbh@alchemy.lu> wrote:
Not to mention that the package seems to install a wine version of steam that is in closed beta, which makes it less than useful for the majority of us.
It doesn't use Wine (it's native), and it works without being in the private beta (chat, installing a couple dozen indie games). You just can't play the native ports of big titles (tf2, serious sam 3, etc.) without being in the private beta.
Ah, sorry about the wine allegation, it looked just like running it in wine and is multiilb with lib32 stuff. My mistake, I should have verified before opening my mouth.
When I try to login with my steam account I get told that: "This version of Steam is currently in closed beta. Login with an enrolled account to continue" http://dl.dropbox.com/u/879835/steam-beta.png
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Joakim
If you aren't in the beta, you can start it by running `steam steam://open/games' (or another steam page), or by clicking a steam link from your browser. As far as I can tell, they made it easy to work around the "private" part intentionally, but it makes it clear that you shouldn't expect support yet.