Alaknár@lemm.eedeleted by creator to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoOn August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31help.steampowered.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1213arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
arrow-up1213arrow-down1external-linkOn August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31help.steampowered.comAlaknár@lemm.eedeleted by creator to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square31linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
minus-squareAlaknár@lemm.eedeleted by creatorOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·1 year ago What was that promise Valve made some years ago? That they’d keep Steam running regardless of the OS version? You, umm, got a source for that? Because that sounds like an insane promise to make.
minus-squareClusterfck@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down6·1 year agoDudes not worth my time to look this up for sure, but I’m fairly certain the statement was they’d support any Linux distro.
minus-squareAlaknár@lemm.eedeleted by creatorOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 year agoOK… You do understand the difference between distribution and version, right? You need to have a 5 year old distribution with no updates whatsoever to be at risk of losing Steam. So, what exactly is the problem here?
minus-squareClusterfck@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down2·1 year agoI’m on your side dude, I was saying chucklenuts up above was confused.
You, umm, got a source for that? Because that sounds like an insane promise to make.
Dudes not worth my time to look this up for sure, but I’m fairly certain the statement was they’d support any Linux distro.
OK… You do understand the difference between distribution and version, right?
You need to have a 5 year old distribution with no updates whatsoever to be at risk of losing Steam.
So, what exactly is the problem here?
I’m on your side dude, I was saying chucklenuts up above was confused.