I tried installing it natively, but that requires activating multilib first, and even then, some of my games didn’t launch, complaining about missing stuff. Flatpak is just all around less hassle for Steam, but Steam is also the only thing I use it for.
some of my games didn’t launch, complaining about missing stuff.
I don’t know Slackware, but I know on arch there’s the standard steam runtime version, and then there’s the unofficial steam-native-runtime, which uses system packages instead of steam’s own bundled runtime. And if we’re talking native Linux games, which is where the problem is, they tend to not work with steam’s runtime, presumably because they weren’t properly built to target it, and need to be launched with the native runtime (or switch to running the windows version with proton…)
Never tried Flatpak… I usually avoid Flatpak altogether. Multilib is usually just three commands from here http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ Then I just install my nvidia driver manually using the .run file after a kernel update before I startx (I’ve done it this way since 2002, never had issues).
Aside from that, I’ve never once had problems with games on Steam, or with Steam itself.
I tried installing it natively, but that requires activating multilib first, and even then, some of my games didn’t launch, complaining about missing stuff. Flatpak is just all around less hassle for Steam, but Steam is also the only thing I use it for.
I don’t know Slackware, but I know on arch there’s the standard steam runtime version, and then there’s the unofficial
steam-native-runtime, which uses system packages instead of steam’s own bundled runtime. And if we’re talking native Linux games, which is where the problem is, they tend to not work with steam’s runtime, presumably because they weren’t properly built to target it, and need to be launched with the native runtime (or switch to running the windows version with proton…)Never tried Flatpak… I usually avoid Flatpak altogether. Multilib is usually just three commands from here http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ Then I just install my nvidia driver manually using the .run file after a kernel update before I startx (I’ve done it this way since 2002, never had issues).
Aside from that, I’ve never once had problems with games on Steam, or with Steam itself.
Flatpak is the demiurge.