Alaknár@lemm.ee to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoOn August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31help.steampowered.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1205arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1205arrow-down1external-linkOn August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31help.steampowered.comAlaknár@lemm.ee to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square31linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAlaknár@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·2 days 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·edit-22 days 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.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 days 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-down2·2 days 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.