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steam use a bad way to get the name distro

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#6343 · opened 2019-06-27 by pruebahola · updated 2019-06-27 · 2 comments · github
Ppruebahola 2019-06-27 github

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  • Steam client version (build number or date): Jun 17 2019, at 23:31:27
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Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

steam get the distro name using "Description" from "lsb_release -a"
This is a problem because 2 things:

1- Not all distro use this method because is the old method (example opensuse) and steam don't detect opensuse as distro and only put "Linux 64bit"

2-Is a old method, actually is "cat /etc/os-release" (used in all distros)

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. check the name steam detect about you distro
  2. if only put "linux 64bit", install lsb-release package and steam will detect the name correctly
  3. if the name is correctly, remove lsb_release package and steam will put "Linux 64bit" as distro name
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-06-27 github

Hello @pruebahola, this topic is already being discussed at #5909. Closing as a duplicate.

Ppruebahola 2019-06-27 github

Thanks @kisak-valve
I hope this will fix soon, i'm in curiosity about steam survey, is really interesting!

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