Not used it myself, but it's documented on the ArchiWiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam#Alternative_Flatpak_installation

Seems pretty straightforward.

So where doesFlatpak store the home/.options files. I once installed NetHack as a Snap. Installed the latest version no probs. But could not for the life of me work out where the options were saved

Quoting: Craggles086So where doesFlatpak store the home/.options files. I once installed NetHack as a Snap. Installed the latest version no probs. But could not for the life of me work out where the options were saved

Not specific to Steam per-say, but generally you'll find flatpak configuration and other files in "~/.var/app/appname". :smile:

Quoting: 14I read an article recently in the Linux Format magazine where a Pop!_OS developer recommended installing Steam via Flatpak. IIRC, it was because of the 32-bit libraries Steam depends upon and ease of migrating the program to a new system.

We got any battle experience here? Anyone rockin' that setup and have a story to tell?

The thought is intriguing, but I don't want to add more things to troubleshoot to my system.

I use the Steam Flatpak. What did you want to know?

> We got any battle experience here? Anyone rockin' that setup and have a story to tell?

Can be translated as:

Have you overcome any hurdles? Have you gone through an experience using it that is noteworthy enough to share?

A thing that I found irritating at first: when a game crashed, something in the sandbox could become a zombie, preventing the game from restarting. Killing the game from steam end even exiting steam would not help as the sandbox kept running until I rebooted the machine (really annoying if you also have other stuff running).
Even though I never found the right process to kill with ps, after some time I learned aboutthe good commands to fix this:
flatpak ps and flatpak kill to find and kill the zombie instance.

Quoting: 14> We got any battle experience here? Anyone rockin' that setup and have a story to tell?

Can be translated as:

Have you overcome any hurdles? Have you gone through an experience using it that is noteworthy enough to share?

Well, I have never been able to get Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines to work. Modded with the Unofficial Patch or un-modded. Never works.

You have to use flatpak override to get any external drives you have recognized. The Flathub page tells you how to do this.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam

Proton-GE and MangoHUD both have Flatpak builds, so you can easily install and use them without ProtonUp-Qt or the AUR. MangoHUD can also be easily configured to apply to every game.

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Steam flatpak causes endless issues. Have fun if you go that route.

Thanks for the responses. I think I don't want to add complication. :)

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Quoting: 14> We got any battle experience here? Anyone rockin' that setup and have a story to tell?

Can be translated as:

Have you overcome any hurdles? Have you gone through an experience using it that is noteworthy enough to share?

Well, I have never been able to get Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines to work. Modded with the Unofficial Patch or un-modded. Never works.

You have to use flatpak override to get any external drives you have recognized. The Flathub page tells you how to do this.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam

Proton-GE and MangoHUD both have Flatpak builds, so you can easily install and use them without ProtonUp-Qt or the AUR. MangoHUD can also be easily configured to apply to every game.

I think that might be due to steam or the fatpack. I played the gog version through last year using conty/wine-portable without any tinkering, it just worked out of the box.

It's probably related to the Steam Flatpak. I know, because using Steam installed via Pacman, I can boot up and play VtMB no problem.

At this point in time though, it no longer bugs me. Not only do I not particularly enjoy playing VtMB anymore, but since the Steam Flatpak works with everything else, I'm not interested in dwelling on one particular game.

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Quoting: 14> We got any battle experience here? Anyone rockin' that setup and have a story to tell?

Can be translated as:

Have you overcome any hurdles? Have you gone through an experience using it that is noteworthy enough to share?

Well, I have never been able to get Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines to work. Modded with the Unofficial Patch or un-modded. Never works.

You have to use flatpak override to get any external drives you have recognized. The Flathub page tells you how to do this.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam

Proton-GE and MangoHUD both have Flatpak builds, so you can easily install and use them without ProtonUp-Qt or the AUR. MangoHUD can also be easily configured to apply to every game.

I think that might be due to steam or the fatpack. I played the gog version through last year using conty/wine-portable without any tinkering, it just worked out of the box.

It's probably related to the Steam Flatpak. I know, because using Steam installed via Pacman, I can boot up and play VtMB no problem.

At this point in time though, it no longer bugs me. Not only do I not particularly enjoy playing VtMB anymore, but since the Steam Flatpak works with everything else, I'm not interested in dwelling on one particular game.

One thing i'm wondering thogh, can you get rid of the multiarch mode on the host with the flatpak?

Multiarch mode? Can you explain that for me?

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Quoting: 14> We got any battle experience here? Anyone rockin' that setup and have a story to tell?

Can be translated as:

Have you overcome any hurdles? Have you gone through an experience using it that is noteworthy enough to share?

Well, I have never been able to get Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines to work. Modded with the Unofficial Patch or un-modded. Never works.

You have to use flatpak override to get any external drives you have recognized. The Flathub page tells you how to do this.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam

Proton-GE and MangoHUD both have Flatpak builds, so you can easily install and use them without ProtonUp-Qt or the AUR. MangoHUD can also be easily configured to apply to every game.

I think that might be due to steam or the fatpack. I played the gog version through last year using conty/wine-portable without any tinkering, it just worked out of the box.

It's probably related to the Steam Flatpak. I know, because using Steam installed via Pacman, I can boot up and play VtMB no problem.

At this point in time though, it no longer bugs me. Not only do I not particularly enjoy playing VtMB anymore, but since the Steam Flatpak works with everything else, I'm not interested in dwelling on one particular game.

One thing i'm wondering thogh, can you get rid of the multiarch mode on the host with the flatpak?

Multiarch mode? Can you explain that for me?

Does the flatpak have all the 32 bit libraries so i dont have to install them on the host?

They come from flatpak as a runtime, (I think by freedesktop) so you don't have to install them system-wide, and it's not a problem if your distro stops packaging them.

Of course, in addition to the flatpak runtime, steam will install its own runtime for the games, duplicating many libraries, but that's no different from installing the deb/rpm.

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Quoting: 14> We got any battle experience here? Anyone rockin' that setup and have a story to tell?

Can be translated as:

Have you overcome any hurdles? Have you gone through an experience using it that is noteworthy enough to share?

Well, I have never been able to get Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines to work. Modded with the Unofficial Patch or un-modded. Never works.

You have to use flatpak override to get any external drives you have recognized. The Flathub page tells you how to do this.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.valvesoftware.Steam

Proton-GE and MangoHUD both have Flatpak builds, so you can easily install and use them without ProtonUp-Qt or the AUR. MangoHUD can also be easily configured to apply to every game.

I think that might be due to steam or the fatpack. I played the gog version through last year using conty/wine-portable without any tinkering, it just worked out of the box.

It's probably related to the Steam Flatpak. I know, because using Steam installed via Pacman, I can boot up and play VtMB no problem.

At this point in time though, it no longer bugs me. Not only do I not particularly enjoy playing VtMB anymore, but since the Steam Flatpak works with everything else, I'm not interested in dwelling on one particular game.

One thing i'm wondering thogh, can you get rid of the multiarch mode on the host with the flatpak?

Multiarch mode? Can you explain that for me?

Does the flatpak have all the 32 bit libraries so i dont have to install them on the host?

Yes. What the above guy said, essentially.

Still a big no from me for both the Flatpak and the Snappy thing.

Cannot believe there are no performance regressions. Just cause Ars suggests it is bleeding edge does not mean anything.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/steam-for-linux-snap-package-gets-bleeding-edge-mesa-libraries-baked-in/