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Run Steam from console? (programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I finally separated some overkill hardware from my server rig (an RTX 3080 and a Ryzen 5800X3D) and put them in their own chassi. Installed Arch, again, of course. The server got a "new" Ryzen 5700G , which apparently is a repurposed laptop APU.

A few years ago, I used to fire up my desktop environment (dwm on X11) and launch Steam from a pseudo terminal.

On my reborn gaming PC, could I skip installing a desktop environment and still play games on Steam? Will it run directly from the console like - for instance - mpv does?

The purpose would be to minimize any overhead from dwm and X11. Which sounds ridiculous now that I "say" it out loud, because it's negligible, but still. My question still stands.

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago

If you mean running a game directly without any display server of whatever running, i don't think that's possible, but the closest thing to that might be gamescope i think? Gamescope should be able to run directly as a graphical session instead of it being nested inside an X server/wayland compositor, but gamescope still runs on wayland regardless.

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