209
On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31 (help.steampowered.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Alaknar@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

To check which version of glibc you have, run ldd --version in the terminal.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Alaknar@lemm.ee 72 points 2 months 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.

[-] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] Alaknar@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 months ago

I'm on your side dude, I was saying chucklenuts up above was confused.

this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
209 points (100.0% liked)

Linux Gaming

19997 readers
102 users here now

Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.

This page can be subscribed to via RSS.

Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.

No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.

Resources

WWW:

Discord:

IRC:

Matrix:

Telegram:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
monolalia@lemmy.world