Also, specifically Ubuntu - it depends on a higher version of libc6 than is avai...

voltagex_ · on March 27, 2013

Also known as Steam syndrome.

Does this trend worry anyone else? Limiting usage to one distro can't be a good thing.

amethyst · on March 27, 2013

Hasn't stopped other distros from supporting Steam, with Valve's blessings no less. I use Steam on my Arch Linux machines with zero issues.

gee_totes · on March 28, 2013

I also a happy user of Steam on Fedora. I can run full-screen games just fine (been playing Faster than Light recently).

qdot76367 · on March 28, 2013

It usually relies on the libc of the system too, which means you are REALLY limited to bleeding edge ubuntu for these normally. OpenNI has been horrible about this.

14113 · on March 28, 2013

It really worries me, especially as it's not just differently structured distros like arch that are out in the cold, but debian, which Ubunutu is derived from.

yarrel · on March 28, 2013

It's bad. Ubuntu is the corporate partner for companies that don't want to do Free Software.

fnordfnordfnord · on March 28, 2013

Currently using Steam on Linux Mint. Works as well as it ever has.

ekianjo · on March 28, 2013

Mint being more or less a fork of Ubuntu, saying it works on Mint does not say much about the support for other distros.