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.
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.
Steam web and the readme in the repo says Ubuntu is a requirement
Yeah, when their own documents don’t even mention Steam Deck or SteamOS, you can just conclude that these are yet another pieces of text that have not been brought up to date by editors, especially when the website still lists Unity as supported desktop. Keeping support documents up to date is just one of the things Valve sucks at.
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?
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)
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.
No, it doesn’t. It lists Ubuntu under the requirements section but under https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux?tab=readme-ov-file#reporting-issues it does not say that issues for all distributions are being rejected. It especially does not mention Unity desktop support which is a clear indicator of the page’s age.
They put less resources in other environments, but more than none
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.
Yeah, when their own documents don’t even mention Steam Deck or SteamOS, you can just conclude that these are yet another pieces of text that have not been brought up to date by editors, especially when the website still lists Unity as supported desktop. Keeping support documents up to date is just one of the things Valve sucks at.