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?

  • MajinBlayze@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I did this for a short while and didn’t run into any issues. They have their own separate libraries, though you could change that if you wanted to though.

    • million@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Separate libraries as in game libraries? Meaning you have to install games twice?

      If that is the case did you experiment with point them to the same library?

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Library sharing between two instances of Steam works great. My shared ~/Games/SteamLibrary works well in Steam flatpak and Steam native, and I’ve done that for years.

        • million@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Since I installed native first I wonder if I can point the flatpak version to that. I actually have no idea where it is but I assume it’s outside of the home directory.

          Might make more sense to move it into home like you are saying for more seamless flatpak compatibility.

          • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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            5 months ago

            I also had to add ~/Games to the flatpak sandbox with flatseal to allow Steam flatpak to access my library.

            Steam settings should show the path to where your library is located.

            • million@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Follow up, have both the Flatpak version and package steam up and running. Moved my game library to ~/Games/Steam. I added ~/Games/Steam:rw (and later ~/Games/Steam:create) to my Flatpak permissions and tried to install a game that already existed to make Flatpak Steam realize it was there, Steam instead gives me a “Disk Write Error”. Did you hit this at all, any idea what it may be?

              EDIT: Fix it, or it magically fixed itself. I removed the Steam library and re-added it and that seemed to make it happy.

              • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                4 months ago

                Great to hear it works! I’ve also had issues with the SteamLibrary not being detected a few times over the years, but that also happened on SteamOS so I guess it’s a bug.