Bug#860950: steam: crashes on startup

[Clayton]

> I think it can probably be closed, then?

I would say so, yes.

> > 	"Linux
> > 
> > 	32-bit Linux distributions are also no longer supported.
> > Please install a 64-bit Linux distribution to make use of the Steam
> > 	browser."
> > 
> > This sounds to me like it might be the end of the road for Steam on
> > 32-bit.  
> 
> Because the Steam client is a 32-bit binary with 32-bit dependencies,
> we have to distribute it as steam:i386 anyway - otherwise its
> dependencies on libraries like libGL wouldn't work correctly.
> 
> If the embedded web browser (a separate process, I think) doesn't work
> on a pure i386 system but only on an amd64 + i386 multiarch system,
> then that isn't really something we can fix. If I remember correctly
> from using Windows Steam under Wine at a time when Wine failed to run
> the embedded web browser, the Steam client can work enough without its
> web browser to log in (during startup) and install and run games that
> were bought by using a different web browser or a different machine,
> as long as those games are themselves 32-bit; so I think "works with
> severely degraded functionality" would be a reasonable summary?

That's fair ball, TBH I will probably not even try again as in browsing
through the games library I did not see too much that would likely run
well (if at all) on an ancient machine, so I have since scrounged a
64-bit machine with a bit more oomph for permanent use as game machine.

Thanks for staying on top of steam,
Clayton