Activate a Product on Steam tries to install regardless of support for the game.

[jsimmons]

If you activate a product on Steam for Linux that is not available on Linux it will continue anyway and start to install the game.

[johndrinkwater]

Seems related to missing validoslist in games’ entries, wizard assuming that platform is valid regardless.

[sushimustwrite]

Related: if you click the "See the Steam support site for more information" link in the pop up alerting you that yes, an error did occur, you get a help desk error at the support site. "The specified article does not exist or you do not have permission to view it."

The URL in question: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9361-YAGV-7766&l=english

[mxdpeep]

LIMBO is officially available for Linux through CodeWeavers (wine) setup, no reason to fail in Steam

[fur0n]

so It is now showing 2 games in my Linux section of my library. snapshot doesn't even download anything and gives a "invalid app config" error. Cave Story+ downloads 180 MB but when starting the game it gives a "missing executable" error. When I navigate to the folders snapshot has nothing in its folder but a folder is created, In Cave Story+ it shows a "data" folder with Linux files in it. Shank 2 also downloads but it's the windows files.

[mdaffin]

Here is a list of games that actually work under steam on linux.

[johndrinkwater]

james147,
To see the up-to-the-second list of supported games, click the Linux tab on the Store page of the client. Any other method is not guaranteed to be correct.

[mdaffin]

@johndrinkwater, except some of the games in the store do not work, and which ones currently don't are listed on that page.

[tomchiverton]

Indeed. The Reddit link is far more comprehensive, and more accurate as far as I can tell, because 'work' is clearly not a binary thing unfortunately - for instance iBomber Pacific may or may not work depending on your graphics hardware, where as Steam just say "works". See http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846939071214672602/ for instance.

[mxdpeep]

NightSky HD fails to install "invalid platform", but I got a new key from Humble Bundle - this key cannot be used as I have already purchased the game key for Windows... 👎 👊

[johndrinkwater]

For titles with win+mac support, it will refuse to install. With just win support, it will offer to install (see disk space required).