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On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31(help.steampowered.com)

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To check which version of glibc you have, run ldd --version in the terminal.

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Alaknár@lemm.eeOP
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OK… You do understand the difference between distribution and version, right?

You need to have a 5 year old distribution with no updates whatsoever to be at risk of losing Steam.

So, what exactly is the problem here?

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Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org
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I’m on your side dude, I was saying chucklenuts up above was confused.

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