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-up1204arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1204arrow-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-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-21 day agoI’m curious, would running the Flatpak version of Steam “fix” this by providing its own glibc? You know, for the people that want to stay on an old glibc yet are also comfortable with using Flatpak.
minus-squaredaq@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 day agoYes, but which OS is still running glibc < 2.31?
minus-squarePsyhackological@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 day agoAlmost Linux Mint Debian (2.32)
minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoDebian Trixie 2.41-7 Debian stable 2.36-9
minus-squarePsyhackological@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI think they are preparing their next edition soon.
I’m curious, would running the Flatpak version of Steam “fix” this by providing its own glibc?
You know, for the people that want to stay on an old glibc yet are also comfortable with using Flatpak.
Yes, but which OS is still running glibc < 2.31?
Almost Linux Mint Debian (2.32)
Debian Trixie 2.41-7 Debian stable 2.36-9
I think they are preparing their next edition soon.
It should.