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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.
I just run Steam as a flatpak. Works fine.
Not sure why the downvotes. Flatpak is a great thing.
Unless you muck around in bottles a lot of things break.
Been using flatpak Steam for years without any issues specifically related flatpak. 👍👍 Highly recommend!
What does "muck around in bottles" mean?
Flatpacks have permission issues due to the way they are structurally designed. Applications like Flatseal and Bottles allow you to remove those limitations, but it's a lot easier to just install the client outside of Flatpack.
I've only had to use Flatseal a couple times to fix wonky permissions for Flatpaks, and I'm not even sure what Bottles has to do with them since Wine has nothing to do with Flatpak to the best of my knowledge
Bottles is an app that people who use hyperland also use, but I don't know what it does.
It's basically a GUI interface for wine
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.
Sometimes you have to allow access to some things outside of the Flatpak container. I use Flatseal for that.
I don't think flatseal can set the background permission, but I might not recall correctly:
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
Give Steam Flatpak a try on Debian instead.
I've been using LMDE for the past couple years and I do all my non-switch gaming on it.
i recommend LXQT over LXDE cause its like the spiritual succesor,i think lighter and it has Wayland
but you can use whatever you like
I'm not using either of those. I'm using the LMDE default, Cinnamon.
sure