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Valve put up a new Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 with a move towards 64-bit (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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To ensure games run well on Linux either via Native Linux builds or Windows games with Proton, part of the magic is in the Steam Linux Runtime. A new version of it, the Steam Linux Runtime 4.0 was recently put up with some pretty big changes.

What's the point of it? It ensures Steam and games run through Steam on Linux work properly across all the many different Linux distributions. Another secret Valve sauce for Linux. Well, not secret at all but you get my meaning I'm sure.

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[–] 94 points 11 months ago (27 children)

That's a good sign, that Valve is moving at least the runtimes to 64bit only. Maybe that means the client is under similar scrutiny internally. Recently when Fedora was discussing dropping more 32bit libraries Steam came up as a big issue.

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (21 children)

    Yeah, 32bit is why I removed Steam from my Debian desktop daily driver again. I got conflicting 32bit and 64bit versions of some libraries that broke my system. I'm going to try a gaming focussed distro like Bazzite next time.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    ???

    Debian separates out stuff with :[arch] suffixes, and is really flexible in the sense that it even lets you install stuff from completely different architectures for, for example, use with qemu userspace. An i386 package is going to only request i386 dependencies, unless it explicitly specifies an architecture, and vice versa. Arch Linux uses the "lib32-" prefix and I don't really remember how it worked on Fedora but I would imagine something similar. All "gaming focused distros" are merely just their mainstream counterparts with an extra repo for a few packages, it's not going to change fundamentals.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Give Steam Flatpak a try on Debian instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    I've been using LMDE for the past couple years and I do all my non-switch gaming on it.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    i recommend LXQT over LXDE cause its like the spiritual succesor,i think lighter and it has Wayland
    but you can use whatever you like

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    I just run Steam as a flatpak. Works fine.

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Not sure why the downvotes. Flatpak is a great thing.

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  • [–] -4 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Unless you muck around in bottles a lot of things break.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    What does "muck around in bottles" mean?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Flatpacks have permission issues due to the way they are structurally designed. Applications like Flatseal and Bottles allow you to remove those limitations, but it's a lot easier to just install the client outside of Flatpack.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I've only had to use Flatseal a couple times to fix wonky permissions for Flatpaks, and I'm not even sure what Bottles has to do with them since Wine has nothing to do with Flatpak to the best of my knowledge

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It doesn't work fine out of the box. I tried it on Opensuse MicroOS a year and a bit ago and had to search 3-5 pretty undocumented solutions to big problems before being able to play the same games that non-flatpak could.

    Out of the box, proton didn't work at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Didn't they already announce they're going to drop 32 bit?

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