Never used it, but I use something called pipewire graph or something (I’m on vacation and I can’t be bothered sorry heh)

I’m using pipewire just fine to do so? I just needed to set the buffer size to something appropriately low and I’ve had no issues from popewire’s side

To be fair, running “apt install steam” and it promoting to remove the base packages is a pretty bad bug, and the safeguard they’ve put in place since that incident in case you remove your entire distro was long overdue. If he were using it in a professional setting? Skill issue, read the output. But he was using it… as a user!