Using Steam on Ubuntu? You may need to change distribution to be able to run the application. A developer has announced that Steam will not officially support the Ubuntu 19.10 or future releases.
The Linux distributions based on Ubuntu will also be affected.
This will happen because Canonical announced its plans for leaving packages and libraries of 32-bit from Ubuntu 19.10. For those who don't know, these packages allow 32-bit software to run on 64-bit versions of Ubuntu.
While most Linux applications will not be a problem, Canonical's move will deal a huge blow to Valve's Steam.
Many Linux games on Steam are only available in 32-bit format - they work on 64-bit Linux distributions, but using only 32-bit libraries.
As persignalrecently announced by Phoronix, this will also affect the level of compatibility with Wine that allows Windows software to run on Linux, as it will no longer be able to run 32-bit Windows software.
So immediately after the announcement of Canonical, Pierre-Loup Griffais of Valve he published on Twitter that Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases of the distribution "will not be officially supported by Steam and are not recommended for our users".
The good news is that your existing Ubuntu installation (Ubuntu 19.04 “Disco DingoOr Ubuntu 18.04 LTSBionic Beaver") Will continue to run Steam and its games for years to come.
The bad news is that Linux gamers using the Ubuntu distribution will probably have to change their Linux distribution in the future.
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