Bad news for Canonical, there will be no Steam for Ubuntu 19.10

It seems that things are turning against Canonical in the wake of the bad decisions you've made lately. Well, as mentioned in previous articles here on the blog la recent decision by Canonical developers to completely remove support for 32-bit packet delivery starting with the next Ubuntu version.

And not only that, this decision affects, no matter how optimistic it was where it only applied to Ubuntu, it was not like that, since in the first instance it affects all ecosystems that are based on it, from the official flavors such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, etc, as well as derivatives of this say Linux Mint, Zorin OS, Puppy Linux, etc.

As many of you may know, Canonical put aside 32-bit imaging for Ubuntu, now Ubuntu developers made the decision to complete the end of the architecture lifecycle in the distribution.

En Ubuntu 19.10 this version will no longer have the possibility of having the packages with the i386 architecture in the repository.

Faced with this decision, a few days later the developers in charge of the Wine project answered Canonical about the bad decision that they were taking and that this could cost them too much.

Since in Wine they comment that if Canonical is put into practice, Ubuntu 19.04 would officially be left without support for Wine.

And it is not by mere whim of the developers of Wine, but that as current versions of Wine for 64-bit distributions are based on Wine32 and require 32-bit libraries.

Typically, in 64-bit environments the required 32-bit libraries are shipped in multiarch packages, but on Ubuntu it was decided to stop creating such libraries entirely.

With this you can understand why It is not yet feasible to stop supporting this package architectureAs in Wine, whose 64-bit edition is not yet ready for general use, and the GOG game delivery platform, which Wine uses to launch many games.

Valve joins Wine and leaves Ubuntu 19.10 unsupported

After the information that the people of Wine released, Now it is the turn of the Valve company in which one of its employees announced that the company will no longer officially support the next version of the distribution Ubuntu on Steam, as of the 19.10 release and will not recommend it to its users.

Decision was taken in connection with the complete cessation of 32-bit package formation in Ubuntu 19.10, including the 32-bit library versions required to run existing 32-bit applications.

To run some games from Steam, the presence of 32-bit libraries is required. Valve is considering possible ways to minimize the damage due to the rejection of support for Ubuntu 19.10+, but will now turn its attention to promoting another distribution.

The type of distribution to be offered as recommended will be announced later. It will probably be Debian, based on the fact that Valve is developing its own SteamOS distribution, the last update of which was released in April.

Without a doubt this decision made by Canonical developers may put the balance against them, Well, as mentioned at the beginning, this not only affects distribution, but also affects all its ecosystems based on it.

In addition, many of them will go out to ask Canonical to reconsider what it is doing, since it is going to affect third parties.

So if so, possibly and we could see that many of its derivatives could be changing the base to Debian.

While there are unconfirmed reports that Canonical is considering canceling the decision to stop supporting i386 or organize multiarch package delivery with 32-bit libraries for 64-bit environments.