mark- i have steam on my windows boot os- how do i get it on linux? Do i need a special version of linix? I’d like to play my games on linux (dues ex- F.E.A.R- etc not too taxing older games) if possible- be much easier rather than dual booting- and i can finally almost get rid of windows altogether (expect for photoshop- need to run photoshop for photography- doesn’t run well in VM or wine-)
Just go to your software manager and search on the keyword "steam"
I would think you could access it from any distribution. This article describes how to install it on Ubuntu by way of the terminal. There are similar instructions for the Red Hat variants that I've seen...and I'm sure there are instructions for SuSE as well.
The nice thing is if you use the Software Manager or one of the repositories, all the dependencies should be listed and installed.
Hope that helps.