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Linux is basically impossible to support. Valve pulled it off by shipping a complete copy of Ubuntu 12.02 with Steam.

<Platform> is basically impossible to support. <Company> pulled it off by shipping a complete copy of the Chromium browser with <Product> and turning it into a web application.

In any case I don't see how this is materially different from Windows where it's the norm for every game to ship its own libraries and install various redistributables to function.

On Windows those libraries are part of the application package. On Linux they're supposedly part of the OS, they're designed to be part of the OS and the loader is trying to get them from the OS, but is redirected to get them from the wrapper layer provided by the store (neither the application nor the OS!) instead.

Where does Valve use Ubuntu? SteamOS is Arch.

https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/scout/sdk

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