minus-square9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·edit-219 hours agoThe changelog for 2.31 is here: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-announce/2020/msg00001.html Latest version of glibc is 2.41, released 2025-01-30. That puts 2.31 at least 10 releases behind. That version is quite outdated. There are numerous security and bug fixes in 2.31 alone, with each newer release also fixing some as well. linkfedilink
minus-square9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·20 hours agoJust get an OS that doesn’t have versions. Ezpz fix. linkfedilink
minus-square9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71·20 hours ago2.31 was released on 2020-02-01. linkfedilink
The changelog for 2.31 is here:
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-announce/2020/msg00001.html
Latest version of glibc is 2.41, released 2025-01-30. That puts 2.31 at least 10 releases behind. That version is quite outdated. There are numerous security and bug fixes in 2.31 alone, with each newer release also fixing some as well.