This isn’t a guide, just something i think may help. To install Steam on an Arch-based distro in most of the cases a simple sudo pacman -S steam will do just fine.
The installation will ask you to select a valid vulkan package from a list. And in most of the cases that’s just fine… most of them.
Then you have your very “picky” old nvidia GPU which works only with a specific old nvidia driver and if you try to install anything else, there will be a conflict. Now you can try to remove the old (working) drivers and try your luck. But looking online i find a simple way to skip this passage and install Steam.
sudo pacman -S steam --assume-installed lib32-vulkan-driver
On my desktop with a 2060 it’s zero issue, but on my 940M hybrid video laptop it’s been spicy at times.
Usually updates without an issue, and the most I need to do is delay the
-settingspackage update until after the rest. (IIRC, see what I mean 😄).