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Installing Steam from BOTH package and Flathub? Any gotchas? (self.linux_gaming)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by million to c/linux_gaming
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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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[–] vikingtons 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A super minor thing that will likely not matter to most people - I believe steamcli requires the traditional steam package to be installed, and will not work with the flatpak (at least on the atomic desktop systems I've tested with).

If you have both I'd imagine everything would work fine