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Steam takes care of the distribution and version mumbo jumbo for you with their runtime

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/b...

Thanks, this is very interesting. So the old native runtime was basically a messy hacky using LD_LIBRARY_PATH and Ubuntu 12.04 libraries, and now they're using containers based on Debian 10 (Steam Runtime 2 'soldier') or Debian 11 (Steam Runtime 3 'sniper').

Edit: Valve actually have some very interesting documents about their compatibility environments:

- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/blob/master/d...

- https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/steamrt/...

Not entirely, but it's a lot better than 1.0/Legacy.

https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/b...

I hope they'll drop 32-bit support in the runtime with the next major version. More and more distributions are dropping it or are thinking about it. Any new game should really use 64.

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