An Ubuntu Steam support end date has been confirmed by Valve. Ubuntu 19.10, which is scheduled to be released on October 17, will be the initial version to lack Steam support. Valve employee, Pierre-Loup Griffais, tweeted out the new confirming the end of Ubuntu support.
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.
— Pierre-Loup Griffais (@Plagman2) June 22, 2019
Ubuntu users who use Steam as their primary game library will have…
