On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31

To check which version of glibc you have, run ldd --version in the terminal.

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For reference, even Deban Stable has been at glibc 2.31 or newer for three major versions now, and another major version is on its way this year. I don't think this will affect many people.
2.31 was released on 2020-02-01.
- That's surprisingly new. Wonder what causes the incompatibility
  
  The changelog for 2.31 is here:
  
  https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-announce/2020/msg00001.html
  
  Latest version of glibc is 2.41, released 2025-01-30. That puts 2.31 at least 10 releases behind. That version is quite outdated. There are numerous security and bug fixes in 2.31 alone, with each newer release also fixing some as well.
I'm curious, would running the Flatpak version of Steam "fix" this by providing its own glibc?

You know, for the people that want to stay on an old glibc yet are also comfortable with using Flatpak.
- Yes, but which OS is still running glibc < 2.31?
  
  Almost Linux Mint Debian (2.32)
- It should.
I use Arch (btw) so I'm not worried about it

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