actually Ubuntu made some clarifications about that. There'll be Steam support going forward for sure. Valve is finally thinking about more broad distribution support though, which imo is good news.
You're more up to date than I am then... good to hear.
I have to wonder why steam isn't 64 bit anyway. Is steam hosting/selling 8bit apps/games?
Ubuntu dropped support for 32bit binaries... However, apparantly there have been developments since that, as posted upthread... I've not read the link yet though.
Debian, like Linux itself, is a great technical foundation. But Ubuntu's whole deal is/was to make a distribution focused on smooth user experience (and cloud hosting, more recently), which meant building on a focused subset of what Debian offers, including architectures. You can run Debian on anything from a RasberryPi to a conventional laptop to an old IBM mainframe, but Ubuntu only supports a few arch'es, and at this point i386 only barely still makes the cut.
Yeah, I'm more than a bit familiar with Debian, though honestly I never really bothered with Ubuntu. I do mess around with things like Mint and Manjaro, from the other sides of the spectrums occasionally though.
Regardless if I might care for it or not (it's a bit of a moot point, honestly), Ubuntu is a significant entity in the Linux space, so it's good to keep tabs on where things are going.
Thanks for bothering with taking the time for your reply.
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And mint has similar imbedded in it's firefox browser by default. And it's a thousand times harder to find info on it and how to remove it. They are a sneaky sleazy bunch. I use their desktop with fedora. I really hope it doesn't have anything imbeded. there are a lot of potential privacy/security issues in linux over the last several decades. And they keep becoming more abundant.
The best thing to come out of Mint was Cinnamon, for sure.
It's neat to find so many Debian heads among us. I thought I was the only one who liked it! sniff, my people!!
/hugs
Actually, I do have a steam machine running SteamOS as a game console in my upstairs. It's Good Enough™. But I use it exclusively as a game console. It's been a little more work to keep updated than a normal game console, but being familiar with the OS, i might be biased about how much tinkering i wind up doing, versus how much is really needed. =)
It's neat to find so many Debian heads among us. I thought I was the only one who liked it! sniff, my people!!
/hugs
Actually, I do have a steam machine running SteamOS as a game console in my upstairs. It's Good Enough™. But I use it exclusively as a game console. It's been a little more work to keep updated than a normal game console, but being familiar with the OS, i might be biased about how much tinkering i wind up doing, versus how much is really needed. =)