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Title: Is it possible to have 2 Steam instances (different accounts) at once on Linux without sandboxing?
BlackSun 2 hours ago
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I currently run Steam through Flatpak, which I reckon is somewhat Sandboxy. Is it possible to run 2 instances at the same time? I tried finding out but couldn't find any info. The search engine keeps pushing Windows solutions to me. 😡

This would solve my https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/6592/ problem, but I can't swap between Steam accounts as it would bar my access to my friends and updates on my games.

I will greatly appreciate help from the greater minds.
Samsai 2 hours ago
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I think the simplest answer is that no, you can't at least easily run another instance of Steam via the Flatpak. The two instances would need to hit separate configuration folders and so on. I think what might be possible is creating basically a full-system container with a separate /home and installing Steam there. You would then need to pass the X11/Wayland connection and other such stuff into that container so you can get graphics working. I think Distrobox might be able to do it, or you can do it the hard way directly with Podman/Docker or systemd-nspawn, LXC etc.
whizse 14 minutes ago
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It would be a very roundabout way, but I guess technically you could run the native Steam client, and at the same time, run the Windows Steam client in Wine...
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