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I’m moving my posts from Reddit to Lemmy before delete them.

This post is from 2021-11-11.

It should've been apt-get but welp.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

For real though, what's the best way to install steam? I assume it's the *.deb directly from the site.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Probably through your GUI package manager. I’d be surprised if your package manager didn’t have a native binary or a flatpack.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flatpak can't launch non-steam games via Steam :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a way to do it without breaking the sandbox? I've been looking for a few days for a way to do this without any luck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by breaking the sandbox. You add permissions to let it see other drives if that's what you mean. Other then that, I just let it see my home and add non steam games. They come up like you would with Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by breaking the sandbox. You add permissions to let it see other drives if that's what you mean. Other then that, I just let it see my home and add non steam games. They come up like you would with Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just give it permission to see whatever directory you're launching the exe from

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not launching an exe I am trying to launch flatpaks and appimages

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think I've read it somewhere that Valve recommends the flatpak. Maybe not, but I would definitely go that route.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on the distro. pacman -Sy steam does the trick in Arch.

[–] muhyb 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer my distro's binary but after the last glibc update I convinced the flatpak version has less problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the flatpack version was thoroughly convinced :)

[–] muhyb 1 points 1 year ago

I recently started thinking like that too after the last glibc update. :)