I was wondering if it is possible to install and play Steam games like Skyrim off a Linux or Unix-base Operating System (OS), such as FreeBSD or OpenSUSE?  Update: Apart from installing through Wine, which is an emulator and would hence defeat the purpose, because it would cancel out any performance increase you might get over running through Windows. In short (as far as I am aware), running through Wine would give even less performance than running through Windows.
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Ok, I was kind of surprised that this hadn't been asked here before, but maybe it's too technical for this site. You guys decide.  I've heard lots of different stories about setting up Wine on Ubuntu, WineTricks, PlayOnLinux etc., but never a 'This is the best way to do it for Steam and Steam games' thread.  So has anyone had any real success getting their Steam games to run on Ubuntu through Wine or something similar? If so, could we get some specific steps?
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Can anyone help me run the game cs portable, I used to play this all the time on windows?? it's free and the download link is , the download link is in the bottom of his profile description.   The file extension is .x86 and the game is only 45MB, so it won't take long too download.
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[SOLVED] I managed to fix the issue by uninstalling the proprietary AMD drivers, rebooting, starting Steam letting it update, reinstalling AMD drivers, reboot. It seems to be working and I can now play all my Steam linux games. I just installed Ubuntu 13.10 64bit on my main PC. I also installed Steam (.deb from ). The install went without errors. On running Steam, nothing happens. I run Steam from the terminal and receive two segmentation faults, always occurring on different lines of Steam.sh when I run Steam: /home/samathy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 11111 Segmentation fault   /home/samathy/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: 11239 Segmentation fault   The rest of the output on the terminal is just dump-saving text. I can't see anything about GLX issues, or locale issues (they seem to be popular issues with steam) I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 64bit with Xubuntu (installed after the Ubuntu install.) My specs are as follows: AMD FX 6350. AMD HD7870 (With AMD proprietary beta drivers) 12GB DDR3 Samsung 840 EVO 120GB. This problem is a little weird to me because Steam runs fine on my Ubuntu 13.10 + Xubuntu-desktop, Intel Atom N270 netbook without any fiddling, I can even run games. I've googled a lot and only really found solutions to other steam issues, not my own. If anyone could help, that'd be wonderful. Thanks! edit: I should mention that I've tried doing ~$steam --reset  It does not produce errors its self, but also doesnt solve the problem either. I have also tried installing Steam from Ubuntu package manage, but that results in the same errors.
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I keep hearing that this is a huge no-no. Why is this? I run Ubuntu mostly so it doesn't affect me, but I was just wondering.
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Currently I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 64 Bit on my laptop and I want to install some Windows programs with Wine (Dreamweaver CS5/Starcraft II etc) but these programs require the 32Bit version of Wine to work even being in a 64Bit environment... I'm a Fedora user most of the time and in that distro installing 32Bit versions of apps inside of a 64Bit system is never a problem, but didn't find a way to do that on Ubuntu.
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Just wondering, are there any projects like WINE, but for Mac software? That is, can we use a program that acts like a compatibility layer to run Mac apps?
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I copied all of the files like in  tutorial, but I have no luck launching PS. I also tried running the installer with WINE, but needed AIR and it wouldn't connect to the adobe servers.  Also, I (think I) removed all of the libraries I installed with winetricks (except for the VC++ ones) and deleted the files I copied from my Windows machine. This is all perfectly safe, right?
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I want to install Steam for Linux. As I have only 256gb SSD and not enough space for games, I'd like to install it (and all it's games) to a USB3 flash drive.  How to do that? Preferably using sudo apt-get install ****. Haven't find a way to specify the installation location.
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I'm looking to treat myself to a totally portable TeX system and was wondering: is it possible to devise an installation scheme that would run on Windows, Linux and MacOS at the "same" time?  I think TeXLive is the best choice here, but I'd much rather avoid having to maintain three separate TeXLive installations. I'd like the three installations to share the package databases for instance.  I'll be using a 32Gb USB stick, in case it matters.  PS: I think I'm onto something here... will post back when I have a working prototype.  Edit: after reading  I managed to format a USB stick with UDF and have it read and written in Linux and Windows (need to perform some tests on Mac yet). This is the first step towards interoperability.  Edit 2: well, as it turns out, the previous note was useless (the partition table breaks under Windows), I've found  and it works like a charm. The only remaining step is writing a couple of scripts to set the environmental variables and we're done ;)
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Just wondering if installing Wine might open up a fairly solid Linux desktop to the world of Windows viruses.  Any confirmed reports about that?  Would you then install a Windows antivirus product under Wine?
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In  is it possible to start the game on one PC/browser and then continue it on another? Are there perhaps files I can copy from one machine to another to continue elsewhere?  Edit I'm using Firefox as my browser
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Is it possible to install FIFA 13 and Origin using Wine.  My graphics card is ATI and its driver is installed in Ubuntu. I wanted to install FIFA 13 using wine. When I tried FIFA 12, it was installed and getting freezed on the game launch.
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I've just installed Ubuntu to replace Windows. I can't seem to find a good alternative to  to run on Ubuntu. Any help would be appreciated.
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I got black screen like said in this post :   Friend's list, Library, everything show me a black screen.  The answer in the link i posted can't work anymore : a part of this answer is to put Windows Version : Windows XP in wineconfig  As of now, steam can't be launched with Windows XP. So I have to put Windows 7 or 10, and the "-no-cef-sandbox"  argument seems to be useless alone.  I can add that i also tried to put d3d11 in Native Windows without success. Someone could help ?
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What exactly is Steam? Isn't it DRM?  What can I do with it?
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Is there a way to run Linux operating system on a virtual machine which aggregates the resources of physical machines on the local network and acts as a single super-computer? If possible, how?  Thanks.
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I have never used Ubuntu or any other Linux OS before last Friday. For all I know, I might have installed Ubuntu wrong and be missing a component. I would prefer if you use simplest terminology possible, but I'm OK with doing a bit of googling if need be. I just installed Steam for Ubuntu 16.04 but it won't open when I click on it in the launcher. The icon flashes for a few seconds, stops and then nothing happens. I looked in the system monitor and steam shows up there but ending the process and trying again does nothing. I heard trying to open apps that aren't working through the terminal tells you what the error is so I tried that and I got this:  Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0) libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast   Please help I just want to play CS:GO again.