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Steam is dropping support for Ubuntu

18 points by spdionis 7y ago

Havoc 7y ago
Seems like quite a mess. Ubuntu + steam combo was a great win for nix Or well at least moving us one step closer to that fabled year of the Linux desktop
- wetpaws 7y ago
  Mint does the job equally good if not better.
  - Havoc 7y ago
    Mint is derived from Ubuntu though no? So it would be affected too
heelix 7y ago
The SteamOS distribution actually works really well, once you get the bloody terminal working. It does a brilliant job of getting the audio and (proprietary) video drivers working. Under the covers it seems like it was jut stock debian. # localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" once you shell out as root to a prompt. After that, it is all the normal apt-get action you get on other variants.
qalmakka 7y ago
This is quite a stupid move from Canonical; even Arch Linux, that it's notoriously a distribution with very little concern for breaking changes, still has support for multilib, despite having dropped 32 bit native support more than a year ago. Why canonical would altogether drop multilib really puzzles me.
finchisko 7y ago
Canonical reverted their decision, but Valve still looking for the "new home". I smell more then technical issues.
- andreime 7y ago
  I smell mistrust. How can they trust Canonical to not "innovate" again?
  - ryuukk_ 7y ago
    "innovate" ? lol it is valve who dropped support for native linux games, instead they prefer the garbage emulation route
- flukus 7y ago
  Canonical have been pretty awful at ensuring compatibility IME, I'm not sure if they're to blame or the individual projects but they've flip flopped on enough things (like wayland) that cause incompatibilities for developers. One game for instance, will start with the games display rectangle offset by the gnome top bar under wayland but not in xorg. Another game but the same publisher has the same issue in xorg but not wayland. Another by the same publisher again relied on a dependency that got removed from the base distro between 16.04 and 18.04. I'm not sure if any other distros are better, but I've seen issue like this sit in the ubuntu bug tracker for years before getting closed with no resolution, switching users for instance doesn't seem to have worked for the better part of a decade.

18 points by spdionis 7y ago

Seems like quite a mess. Ubuntu + steam combo was a great win for nix Or well at least moving us one step closer to that fabled year of the Linux desktop

wetpaws 7y ago
Mint does the job equally good if not better.
- Havoc 7y ago
  Mint is derived from Ubuntu though no? So it would be affected too

heelix 7y ago

The SteamOS distribution actually works really well, once you get the bloody terminal working. It does a brilliant job of getting the audio and (proprietary) video drivers working. Under the covers it seems like it was jut stock debian. # localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" once you shell out as root to a prompt. After that, it is all the normal apt-get action you get on other variants.

qalmakka 7y ago

This is quite a stupid move from Canonical; even Arch Linux, that it's notoriously a distribution with very little concern for breaking changes, still has support for multilib, despite having dropped 32 bit native support more than a year ago. Why canonical would altogether drop multilib really puzzles me.

finchisko 7y ago

Canonical reverted their decision, but Valve still looking for the "new home". I smell more then technical issues.

andreime 7y ago
I smell mistrust. How can they trust Canonical to not "innovate" again?
- ryuukk_ 7y ago
  "innovate" ? lol it is valve who dropped support for native linux games, instead they prefer the garbage emulation route
flukus 7y ago
Canonical have been pretty awful at ensuring compatibility IME, I'm not sure if they're to blame or the individual projects but they've flip flopped on enough things (like wayland) that cause incompatibilities for developers. One game for instance, will start with the games display rectangle offset by the gnome top bar under wayland but not in xorg. Another game but the same publisher has the same issue in xorg but not wayland. Another by the same publisher again relied on a dependency that got removed from the base distro between 16.04 and 18.04. I'm not sure if any other distros are better, but I've seen issue like this sit in the ubuntu bug tracker for years before getting closed with no resolution, switching users for instance doesn't seem to have worked for the better part of a decade.