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Comment by gknoy | Hacker News Reader

I find it interesting that nearly all the software listed, initially, seems to be art related. ArtRage Studio Pro just ended up on my wish list, because that looks like tremendous fun.

Now, if only I could easily install these apps outside the steam folder. My main drive is getting full.

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> Now, if only I could easily install these apps outside the steam folder. My main drive is getting full.

The current Steam beta has support for multiple installation folders. It's a little rough right now, but it seems like something they plan on polishing up and releasing eventually.

Source and more info: http://www.neoseeker.com/news/20791-latest-steam-beta-allows...

Glad to see that is coming soon. I have some symlinks set up in my Steam directory to keep apps on different drives, but something built in would certainly be easier.

I can confirm that the new beta lets you select which directory/drive to install files on. It's a great change and let's me start filling up my 2 TB drive instead of my C drive!

I use steammover to move files between ssd and larger hard drive. Works really well. http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

Even more interesting to me is that all the software present--including the art software--somehow ties into game creation. It looks like Steam is becoming a market to sell both to people who play games, and people who make games.

it is not too surprising, steam is popular place to both get games and sellgames in indie games community. On the other hand I think that better move would be to make it easier to sell games on steam.

used to do mklink to get specific steam-appfolders onto ssd if loading times were too long.

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