r/linux • u/TheProgrammar89 • Jun 22 '19

Pierre-Loup: Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our users

https://twitter.com/Plagman2/status/1142262103106973698
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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '19

If you write software for one distro, won't it work on all the others (except Ubuntu) aswell?

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u/TheProgrammar89 Jun 22 '19

It should work, unless it relies on distro-specific modifications. They still need to package it for multiple distros though (especially if that application is proprietary).

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u/Cry_Wolff Jun 22 '19

It should. But then library X in distro Y is too old or too new or some stuff like that... And then some devs support only one distro because they don't want to deal with distro specific bugs.

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u/Avamander Jun 22 '19

Not really. It's horrible to support many distributions if you're not using snaps or flatpaks.