Why I switched from OS X to Linux

Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by babuskov on Thursday January 12, 2017 @06:05AM (#13381349)

Steam it fully supported. I run it on Ubuntu 16.04 and 14.04 without any problems. Just run it like this:

    env LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' steam

I have no idea why Valve doesn't make that command the default.

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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by kagamine on Thursday January 12, 2017 @06:38AM (#13381478)

I have tried that and many other solutions and forums are still piling up with hacks to get the steam client to work on 16.04 and as far back as 14.x.

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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by babuskov on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:50AM (#13383137)

Just tried on fresh 16.04 install. Works out of the box.

Make sure you download Steam from official website, not the version packaged with the distro.

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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by kagamine on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:20AM (#13389052)

I have tried both on identical PCs.

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Re:Why I switched from OS X to Linux by babuskov on Saturday January 14, 2017 @06:17AM (#13397942)

That's interesting (I assume 64bit version of Ubuntu, right?). What GPU do you have?

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