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Steam Linux client is now a 64bit application (store.steampowered.com)
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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can probably disable multilib repo soon, which is nice.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just installed from Flatpak for years now. No multilib headache.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, SteamVR with Flatpak is busted unless you use something like WiVRn. If you try to use something like the Steam Link app on an Android-based VR headset to do direct SteamVR streaming, it won't work on the Flatpak because of permissions.

Source: Been wishing I could use SteamVR on my gaming PC for a while without a third party solution.

[–] idealism_nearby@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you try and app like Flatseal for customising Flatpak permissions?

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that fixes some things, but there is a sudo command it tries to run that has some sort of pathing issue in the Flatpak version.

[–] idealism_nearby@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a bug to be reported :(

Is it less up to date than other versions they have?

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There is already a bug report. It's been open for two years.

Valve doesn't support SteamVR for Linux in Flatpak or Snap

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you not just allow those permissions?

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's deeper than that. It tries to run a function with sudi that fails every time, but the prompt for a password never appears.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. So it must need some library installed via Flatpak as well, that provides that prompt, right?

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Probably. It tries to run a .sh script on first launch as sudo, but fails. Even if you run it manually, it still didn't seem to fix it. There is a bug report for it somewhere that's been open for 2 years. Valve officially only supports the package version of Steam for SteamVR, not Flatpak, so it's unlikely to get fixed.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is "sudi"? I assumed you meant sudo at first. 😅

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. My phone keyboard did an oops.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Okay thanks, makes sense 😁