• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    That’s so cool that nearly 5% are using Steam in Flatpak, despite that not being officially supported by Valve (official installer is still a .deb).

    Has anyone here used it in a flatpak? Do controllers work properly?

    I haven’t had any issues on my openSUSE Tumbleweed installations, but I’ve considered moving to openSUSE MicroOS, and if I do, I’d end up using the flatpak.

    • no_priority@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      I use it in flatpak, and controllers work properly. The biggest downside to flatpak is that I don’t know how to debug it when things go wrong, but so far, nothing has gone wrong enough for me to move away from flatpak for the last 3 years.

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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        10 days ago

        Usual debug pattern for flatpak is

        flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam

        on the command line, there’s also log files down in ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/data/Steam/logs.

        But I also have never needed to use it in anger, great when things just work, no?

    • hellofriend@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Switched to flatpak because my distro no longer supports installing from official repo or apt. It has troubles with cloud syncing sometimes, especially with larger save files. It stalls out for a minute and then comes back with a “Cloud Sync Failed” noti. Have to retry it a few times.