Steam stops support on Ubuntu 19.10

Are you using Steam on Ubuntu? You may need to change distribution to run the application. A developer has announced that Steam will not officially support Ubuntu 19.10 or future releases.

Ubuntu-based Linux distributions will also be affected.

This will happen because Canonical announced its plans to remove 32-bit packages and libraries from Ubuntu 19.10. For those who don't know, these packages allow to 32-bit to run on 64-bit versions of Ubuntu.

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While most Linux applications will have no problem, the by Canonical, 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 Phoronix recently pointed out, 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 distribution releases "will not be officially supported by Steam and are not recommended to 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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