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So now Linux users: BUY BUY BUY.

I'll be sure to buy a few things from it once it is available even if I'm not likely to play many games.

Passively supporting this isn't very helpful, vote with your wallet. The more money they make the better it is for Linux in the future.

Inside the Steam program:

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  Failed to load web page (unknown error).
Then after much reloading a simply black screen. It seems they did not plan to service the spike.

I read this as a "Steam coming to Linux soon" not a "Steam is now available on Linux today, right this second" announcement.

Unlikey, the load from this is being produced during the low in thier daily performance graphs. You can confirm that by googling 'steam stats' or something similar (ill dig up the link when i'm off my mobile).

Steam internally uses webkit, perhaps your os is missing something it needs.

The same thing happened when Half Life 2 was released on Steam for Windows all those years ago.

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