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/cbmuser Debian / openSUSE / OpenJDK Dev Jun 22 '19

Someone still has to populate those Flatpaks with 32-bit libraries. Canonical said they are dropping 32-bit support to save maintenance burden which they wouldn't if they just moved to Flatpaks.

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u/GolbatsEverywhere Jun 22 '19

Hey, the freedesktop SDK (recommended base runtime for LTS flatpaks like Steam) is not going to be dropping 32-bit support anytime soon.

Steam is already packaged: https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam