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.
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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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.
OpenSUSE is the same, the 32-bit stuff is completely separate from the 64-bit stuff, so you won’t get conflicts between them.
Your better off using cachy if you want a gaming focused distro that doesn’t break. Unless you use mostly flatpaks. Then bazzite is good
I just run Steam as a flatpak. Works fine.
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.
Not sure why the downvotes. Flatpak is a great thing.
Unless you muck around in bottles a lot of things break.
What does “muck around in bottles” mean?
Bottles is an app that people who use hyperland also use, but I don’t know what it does.
Give Steam Flatpak a try on Debian instead.