You must know what you do if you don't want any of these desktop environment.

Here's what mines look like at the moment: http://i.imgur.com/iLsxa.png

It's nice, but I prefer a more minimal setup. :)

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/PL17T.png

I did use Xfce for some time a few years ago, though.

Would a 30gb SSD be able to hold a full ubuntu32 install and TF2?

I think it would be fine. If I recall correctly, TF2 is ~10 GiB. Ubuntu should be quite a bit less than that, although it varies with what you have installed.

tiling wms are sooooo dumb holy shit

I BET YOU USE ARCH YOU BUTT IDIOT

cool opinion you have there. In my opinion tiling wms are pretty nice and arch isn't too bad.

Arch is like my favorite distro. =(

I usually install KDE / Gnome though.

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im on xubuntu right now, but I plan to go to arch when I am more comfortable.
I hate unity.

If we're plugging linux distros then I'll just say crunchbang is where it's at for rookies who realize that ubuntu is awful but don't want to make the jump to something more difficult yet.

I've had some trouble installing steam on it though. Something about the .deb being x86 and my computer being x64, which makes sense, but I don't know how to fix it. If Valve would implement 64 bit versions of their things that'd be pretty neato.

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Thanks for your opinion. And yes, I'm currently using Arch out of laziness, but my distribution of choice is Exherbo.

The best way to learn is to just do it. You don't need to gain Linux experience before moving to a distro like Arch; you'll just pick it up as you use it. Not to mention that there are quite a few significant differences between the two.

You're gonna need to install a bunch of 32-bit libraries to get Steam to run. It's pretty standard procedure when you want to run a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit system. Yes, a native 64-bit version would be nice, but it's certainly not necessary.

I don't know if the version of aptitude crunchbang runs has multilib support, but you download 32-bit libraries on a 64-bit system by doing apt-get install package:arch

So excited, I got an invite into the beta today! I just installed steam onto my linux partition (Mint 13 w/ Cinnamon) without any problems. Which I found surprising since I tried installing the beta about a month ago when it first came out and I was having problems with missing repositories.

I am installing tf2 at the moment. I'll let y'all know how it runs. :D

Awesome! Me too. :)

Got into the beta earlier, tried it on my Xubuntu 12.10 laptop.

1.4 GHz i3 ULV, 8 GB RAM, Samsung 830 SSD. Took about five minutes for TF2 to connect to a server.

Previously with a 7200 RPM HDD and 2 GB RAM in Windows 8 it took about two minutes.

@omp lol running cal as root

so if you're playing tf2 and you're missing custom huds, broeselhud works out of the box like it would on windows.

I was root to edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf :)

i attempted installing it on fedora but it would not launch after install. i believe ubuntu is the only flavor it will cooperate with properly...will try soon.

I had some free time, so I repartitioned my hard drive and installed Linux Mint (64bit). Steam seems to be working fine, and I played TF2 earlier today and it was stable and performed well.

Now that I know my hardware handles it fine, I have a more ambitious task for when I have free time again. I will replace Linux Mint with a 64-bit install of Arch Linux and attempt to get Steam running in a 32-bit chroot environment. The real goal here is to avoid clutter on my actual system. (I don't want to use things such as PulseAudio simply because Steam needs them.)

I will report back with how it goes, but it may take some time as I'm going to be busy with finals, followed by travelling.