Steam Ubuntu Support Ending

This tweet from Valve coder Pierre-Loup Griffais notes that Ubuntu 19.10 (and future releases) will no longer be officially supported by Steam: "Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our users. We will evaluate ways to minimize breakage for existing users, but will also switch our focus to a different distribution, currently TBD." A post on How to Geek offers a little more detail on the reasons for this:
This is all because Canonical announced plans to drop 32-bit packages and libraries from Ubuntu 19.10. These packages enable 32-bit software to run on 64-bit versions of Ubuntu.

While most Linux applications will get along just fine, this is a huge blow to Valve’s Steam. Many Linux games on Steam are only available in 32-bit form—they work on 64-bit Linux distributions, but only with the 32-bit libraries. As Phoronix recently pointed out, this also affects the Wine compatibility layer that allows running Windows software on Linux—Wine won’t be able to run 32-bit Windows software anymore. Steam’s compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux would also not work for 32-bit games.

After Canonical’s announcement, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais tweeted that Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases “will not be officially supported by Steam or recommended to our users.” Valve will officially support and recommend a different Linux distribution in the future.

The good news is that your existing Ubuntu installation—whether it’s Ubuntu 19.04 “Disco Dingo” or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS “Bionic Beaver”—will continue running Steam and its Linux games for years to come.

The bad news is that Linux gamers who enjoy Ubuntu will likely have to switch to a different Linux distribution in the future—unless Canonical or Valve change course.
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chickenboo wrote on Jun 24, 2019, 11:56:
I wonder if there's a quiz-style website for helping users to pick a linux distribution.

There is but it does not take into account hardware. AMD (GPU and CPU) and Intel (GPU and CPU) both have good open source drivers so those are included by all the major distributions. For Nvidia GPUs, however, you'll need to do a small bit of research to find out which of the major distributions support them out of the box or which ones require you to install the driver post-install. Even the major distros that require a post-install driver install make it pretty easy to do so. Manjaro has the Manjaro Hardware Database, for example, which is a one click install and Fedora Workstation 30 (default Gnome DE) can do something similar although it takes three clicks to accomplish.
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