It’s because of me, I installed Mint on an old laptop.
You’re the hero we need but don’t deserve.
AMD CPU use among Linux gamers is at around 69%
Nice.
I just got an AMD rig. It’s 70% now. Sorry.
Thank fuck steam has a runtime compatibility layer otherwise a lot of programs would run into the same issues as some apps do due to distro differences
(You can force it on like you do with wine BTW, naming scheme follows TF2 Classes)
That’s so cool that nearly 5% are using Steam in Flatpak, despite that not being officially supported by Valve (official installer is still a .deb).
Has anyone here used it in a flatpak? Do controllers work properly?
I haven’t had any issues on my openSUSE Tumbleweed installations, but I’ve considered moving to openSUSE MicroOS, and if I do, I’d end up using the flatpak.
I use it in flatpak, and controllers work properly. The biggest downside to flatpak is that I don’t know how to debug it when things go wrong, but so far, nothing has gone wrong enough for me to move away from flatpak for the last 3 years.
Usual debug pattern for flatpak is
flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steamon the command line, there’s also log files down in ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam/logs.
But I also have never needed to use it in anger, great when things just work, no?
A bit fun that the “other” category is so large. Wonder what percentage Fedora is at.
You can install steam on Fedora using an RPM repository. But everyone using the Steam Flatpak will show up as Freedesktop SDK, no matter the distribution. For Fedora-based gaming distributions such as Bazzite, this is the default way to use Steam.
