With the release of native Steam platform for Mac OS by Valve Corporation, there are a lot of rumours about Valve’s Steam platform for linux. However, there has been no proper confirmation of this from the Valve Corporation. Although, there is a native Linux version of the Half-Life Dedicated Server available.
But, for the time being , we will keep playing steam games on linux. How? The answer itslelf is Playonlinux.
PlayOnLinux (POL) is a tool to help Linux users run games and programs for Windows on Linux, via the use of (as a front-end for) Wine. When you install applications with Wine all your file are saved in the same prefix. This maybe isn’t a problem, until you realize a file in one program is messing up another program. PlayOnLinux uses different prefixes for all applications, so you can have specified configurations, settings and file-trees for each program.
One “easy” method of installing Steam is with Play On Linux.
Installing POL:
First download the latest version of POL here .
Or
Follow these steps to install via Terminal:
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