Installing Steam from BOTH package and Flathub? Any gotchas? - eviltoast

As the title says, I am looking to install both the package version (on OpenSuse Tumbleweed) and Flatpak version. I’ve been running the package version for awhile and it’s been fine but I want to play with the Flatpak version to see how that compares - partially because I may eventually go for an immutable distro.

I know how to do this, I am just curious if I shouldn’t do it or if there anything I should be aware of. Will my game library just work between the two?

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    9 months ago

    I didn’t, libraries are stored in different places in flatpak vs native install. You could probably add the normal install location in the flatpak using flat seal, but having the install directory in /home (the default for flatpak) was fine for me .

    For what it’s worth, I’m using steam in flatpak in microos now, and it’s been mostly seamless

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        9 months ago

        Good luck! I’ve been very happy with my microos installs. I’ve got kalpa on my desktop and aeon on my laptop. I’m following a project that uses a microos base for the Steam Deck too (which is ironic since the steam deck is what made me aware of read only root Linux and flatpak in the first place).