blah3166 comments on "The Steam client is now 64-bit. [...] Systems running 32-bit versions of Windows will continue receiving updates to the 32-bit Steam client until January 1, 2026."

[–] blah3166@piefed.social 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I've been using Steam via flatpak on Debian without any issues (yet) since Trixie released.

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[–] Maestro@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Thanks, I'll give that a try then!

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[–] ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Bazzite has Steam preinstalled, and in fact it blocks the installation of Flatpak Steam

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I first read that the ship a dedicated Distrobox container just for Steam, I was utterly confused as to what the benefit would be and I still cannot see it. Maybe the Bazzite developers dislike some of the restricted permissions of the Steam Flatpak or maybe they just want to package it on their own but the benefit for the user escapes me.

I've read another comment and then I realized it's because of Bazzite's Game Mode session. It's a special login session and not just Steam in Big Picture Mode. Flatpaks cannot be used for this kind of specific use case.

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[–] blah3166@piefed.social 1 point 11 months ago

I should add, Debian is more "bare bones" than more gaming focused distros. e.g. flatpak isn't installed by default on Debian, so you have to take that step before you can install steam via the gnome store or command line. It's not difficult, but it is an additional step.

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