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On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31 (help.steampowered.com)
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To check which version of glibc you have, run ldd --version in the terminal.

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[–] muhyb 14 points 4 days ago

That glibc version might not be that old but they do this most likely because of security reasons. There will be a time when Valve will drop 32-bit support entirely as well. Also, you shouldn't use old distros because of the same reason. Currently glibc v2.31 is on Debian Bullseye which is the old-stable version and Valve still supports it. Technically there is no problem with that announcement.