对于Linux游戏来说，这几天很艰难，但战斗已经结束。作为对Canonical改变32位兼容库计划的回应，Valve宣布将“可能”支持Ubuntu19.10和20.04 LTS。

继Canonical在“本周末的大量反馈”后发表声明之后，Valve的声明由开发者Pierre Loup于6月26日在Steam论坛上发布。他解释了整个情况：

In resp***e to the concerns raised by ourselves and the wider community, the Ubuntu project recently discussed a more c***ervative approach wherein a selection of 32-bit libraries would still be available on the host system, through at least 20.04 LTS. We’re still not particularly excited about the removal of any existing functionality, but such a change to the plan is extremely welcome… Given the information we have on this new approach so far, it seems likely that we will be able to continue to officially support Steam on Ubuntu.

然而，Ubuntu的情况并不乐观。Valve目前向Linux游戏玩家推荐Ubuntu作为官方支持的Linux发行版的首选。这可能会改变未来：

The Linux landscape has changed dramatically since we released the initial version of Steam for Linux, and as such, we are re-thinking how we want to approach distribution support going forward. There are several distributi*** on the market today that offer a great gaming desktop experience such as Arch Linux, Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Fedora, and many others. We’ll be working closer with many more distribution maintainers in the future…

That all being said, we don’t have anything specific to announce at this time regarding what distribution(s) will be supported in the future; expect more news on that front in the coming months.

虽然Valve对Ubuntu可能计划在ubuntu20.04lts之后放弃与传统32位软件的兼容性并不感到兴奋，但目前还没有立即宣布的更改。Linux游戏玩家可以继续使用下几个版本的Ubuntu来运行Steam的游戏库。社会各界都听到了。

如果你对这个话题感兴趣，Canonical和Valve的完整声明都值得一读。多亏了老天爷！感谢你发现这一点。