The steam client is only officially supported on Ubuntu and only using KDE, Gnome or Unity. So Valve’s support team won’t check issues on any other Linux setup.
The steam client is only officially supported on Ubuntu and only using KDE, Gnome or Unity.
No. They offer a .deb package but repackaging and redistribution is allowed.
Valve’s support team won’t check issues on any other Linux setup.
That’s false. I guess you never actually reported a bug on their Github page. Here is a random bug report from Steam on Fedora installed from RPMFusion with a Valve developer asking for details instead of closing the issue for being unsupported: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12422
Steam web and the readme in the repo says Ubuntu is a requirement, so they are not being very clear on what they do give support to. I know they allow redistributing the client, but that is a different thing.
That text box is obviously a leftover from the before times. Some pages on Steam’s website don’t get updated for ages. It’s not great but not news either. Only the reality at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues counts in this case.
The readme in that repo says the same and I was told I wouldn’t receive support on Arch in august when I reported a bug. It looks like dev team does track issues in other distros but customer team does not give support.
Yup, it’s the same OS as steam deck, which is based on Arch.
I’m just hoping Valve is ready to step into the OS scene with their own distro. Microsoft is dropping the ball hard with win11
Imagine if they made SteamOS free. Its not a bad OS, and id love to rid my pc of the bloat of Windows
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/65B4-2AA3-5F37-4227
https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/download
You can install and use Linux since ages. SteamOS is just regular Linux but without NVidia drivers.
So… Arch. It’s already free…
What are you talking about? It already IS free. Has been, by necessity, for like a decade since the very first release.
It just does that
I wonder why they only give support to Steam in Ubuntu and not Arch at this point
Can you please clarify what you mean by this comment? Isn’t SteamOS just a pre-configured Arch build?
The steam client is only officially supported on Ubuntu and only using KDE, Gnome or Unity. So Valve’s support team won’t check issues on any other Linux setup.
No. They offer a .deb package but repackaging and redistribution is allowed.
That’s false. I guess you never actually reported a bug on their Github page. Here is a random bug report from Steam on Fedora installed from RPMFusion with a Valve developer asking for details instead of closing the issue for being unsupported: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12422
Steam web and the readme in the repo says Ubuntu is a requirement, so they are not being very clear on what they do give support to. I know they allow redistributing the client, but that is a different thing.
I don’t understand it either. I’m running it on Fedora w/o problems.
Edit: I mean the steam client. Steam OS is based on Arch.
I’m saying that Steam is not fixing any issues in the client for anything that is not Ubuntu (and SteamOs of course)
They put less resources in other environments, but more than none
That text box is obviously a leftover from the before times. Some pages on Steam’s website don’t get updated for ages. It’s not great but not news either. Only the reality at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues counts in this case.
The readme in that repo says the same and I was told I wouldn’t receive support on Arch in august when I reported a bug. It looks like dev team does track issues in other distros but customer team does not give support.