Yeah, I wonder if there's a way to disable the steam web browser to save RAM

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/678515036155543747

Weird. I tried like 10 different locations, even heavily authoritarian ones, and couldn't replicate this. If you don't mind disclosing, what country are you accessing the site from?

You can skip the article and go straight to the source: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/678515036155543747 | Edit: Someone else was faster than me... about 8 hours faster.

Truly the spirit of Linux

Do you live in a EU state?

Here you go:

https://archive.is/oN0GX

It really is! I think last year Fedora proposed dropping 32-bit and things almost got heated between them and Bazzite because of Steam still needed it. I forget why the Flatpak version of Steam didn't suite their needs, but I remember they had very good reasons why it wouldn't be an option to switch to.

I think with the option of running Steam on top/within of the new runtime would mean that they could drop multilib since the runtime can now provide it for the Steam Client (but dont quote me on that, the discussion i read is a little hazy).

Im really excited for the runtime change too, as a NixOS user, theres a bunch of weird issues that pop up due to the PATH thats a pain and time consuming to troubleshoot, rebuild, and test again. Everything is ironed out for normal stuff, but some of the things with 3rd party launchers or mods are messy.

I wouldnt call linuxiac blog spam, but youre entitled to your opinion. Thanks for the primary source.

Probably will be up until 2036

The beta failed to load fo Flatpak Steam.

Are you able to confirm if this full release works correctly in Flatpak steam?

I don't remember having to do that on my "Steam Machine" which is a desktop running NixOS. This is most of my "VR" module:

    environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      iw
    ];

    nixpkgs.config.allow32Bit = true;

    # Steam Frame dongle requires a region be set to work
    boot.extraModprobeConfig = ''
      options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=ES
    '';

    # SteamVR requires CAP_SYS_NICE, this patch allows it to have it
    # WARNING: This allows any application to create high priority contexts
    boot.kernelPatches = [
      {
        name = "amdgpu-ignore-ctx-privileges";
        patch = pkgs.fetchpatch {
          name = "cap_sys_nice_begone.patch";
          url = "https://github.com/Frogging-Family/community-patches/raw/master/linux61-tkg/cap_sys_nice_begone.mypatch";
          hash = "sha256-Y3a0+x2xvHsfLax/uwycdJf3xLxvVfkfDVqjkxNaYEo=";
        };
      }
    ];

    # SteamVR environment variables
    environment.sessionVariables = {
      # Force XCB platform for SteamVR under Wayland (prevents Qt Wayland issues)
      QT_QPA_PLATFORM = "xcb";
    };

It's been working with my Frame perfectly.