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Is it just me or... Since the last update tester day on Arch Linux I haven't been able to start steam on Wayland and on Xorg i can start steam but not any game.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't confirm any problems on Pop_OS with steam. It's working fine as usual.

Maybe try starting the steam client via terminal and see what the output errors are.

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

Do You have the New interface ? It stopped working at the same time.

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

Yup new interface and everything. It's all fine and actually works smooth as butter.

Steam Version: 1686880776 Steam Client Build Date: Fri, Jun 16 03:41 UTC -08:00 Steam Web Build Date: Fri, Jun 16 03:10 UTC -08:00 Steam API Version: SteamClient020

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

No issues for me. Using the new interface since it dropped on the beta branch, which was a good while ago.

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

If you haven't found a solution as of yet, passing the -vgui flag to steam on launch fixed it for me. This launches Steam in the old UI, which seems to be a workaround for the time being.

I'm not entirely sure what the core issue is, the consensus from what I've read so far seems to point to a Nvidia driver issue introduced in a recent update.

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

I installed Fedora and steam works but Bottles and Lutris don't.

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

I wanted to make a clean Linux install so I could also see if the problem persisted on another distro. So from Arch to Fedora the problem is still there, I believe it comes from Wayland/Nvidia/Steam which have issues since the last Steam. update but I can still play windows games on Bottles/Wayland/Nvidia.