Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWindows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls supportwww.pcgamesn.comexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1327arrow-down15
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minus-squareMesophar@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoIt’s Steam; you might wish they had more support on Linux, but you can’t say that Steam doesn’t support Linux.
minus-squarebdonvr@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days agoHonestly I struggle to imagine how Steam could support it more.
minus-squaretekato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoSteam client needs the XWayland translation layer to work on any modern DE, plus 32-bit libraries (which are not installed by default).
minus-squareVoyajer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoHe could be alluding to valve only supporting their own distro and Ubuntu LTS officially.
What support?
It’s Steam; you might wish they had more support on Linux, but you can’t say that Steam doesn’t support Linux.
Honestly I struggle to imagine how Steam could support it more.
Steam client needs the XWayland translation layer to work on any modern DE, plus 32-bit libraries (which are not installed by default).
He could be alluding to valve only supporting their own distro and Ubuntu LTS officially.