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I’m not sure why valve doesn’t just ship a 64bit client with their own compatibility layer(s). There’s a lot of problems on various linux distros hunting down

• m45t3r 7y ago
  Valve already ships the equivalente of a whole Ubuntu 12.04 32-bits included in Steam to be used by games. I would really like if Valve could move Steam to use Flatpak or some other thing instead. Their bundled libraries are a mess and lots of time doesn't work correctly.
  • dylan-m 7y ago
    Someone even made an unofficial flatpak for Steam, too. It's on Flathub and it works great for my needs. Makes perfect sense with the way Valve packages Steam already, since they try really hard to provide the same environment on every distro. The only problem I have with it is you can't easily add additional library folders due to the sandboxing. (Need Valve themselves to add portals to the application code so Steam can pop up a native file chooser which grants access to whatever file the user chooses, and there's no directory tree portal anyway … yet). But that's solvable. Much better, long term, than Valve stubbornly clinging to whatever distro continues to build for an obsolete architecture at their own expense.