Flatpak is NOT a distro, but that’s what Steam reports when it’s running on Flatpak, and Flatpak being distro independent we report it as a separate environment, if that makes sense. Feel free to ignore it if you wish.

[–] gingernate@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Doesn't steam run as a flatpak on bazzite?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

No, it actually does not run the flatpak version.

Steam is essentially treated as part of the core Bazzite OS.

Bazzite runs more or less the latest Fedora version of Steam, and then has a ton of custom scripts, as well as accompanying core-Fedora library utilities to accomodate integrating Steam more fully into Fedora, so that things like Gaming Mode/Desktop Mode, various other under-the-hood things basically work as they do in SteamOS.

Doing it the way they do it, this makes it so you can use the various u-just terminal commands and pre-packaged flatpak apps to tweak things that basically affect or touch or may touch Steam.

So uh, right now, on my Bazzite Steam Deck, if I do:

rpm -qa | grep "steam"

(which is basically Fedora-speak for 'show me all installed libraries that have "steam" in them)

I get:

steam-1.0.0.85-3.fc43.i686

So that would be the current, Fedora 43 version of Steam, from the Terra repo, I think... its not the 44/Rawhide version.

Where the Terra repo is the community repo, sort of roughly analagous to the AUR, compared to mainline Arch libraries.

https://fedora.pkgs.org/43/terra/steam-0:1.0.0.85-3.fc43.i686.rpm.html

That command also lists out a number of steam-related utility libraries, which comprise parts of the core, 'no touchy', atomic part of Bazzite.

[–] gingernate@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Hmm interesting thanks!

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the note, I don't mean to be too snarky--I do actually run the Steam flatpak.

Interesting write-up about Bazzite. I had Bazzite on one of my kid's PCs just because it had an Nvidia card but last week reinstalled Fedora Silverblue. Bazzite has some rough edges and some choices I don't really understand, like using Topgrade and Bazaar. Everyone seems to like it though, maybe I'm in the minority preferring Fedora.

[–] Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm a Linux noob and ended up with Bazzite a bit ago and really like how straightforward Bazaar is, typically what are the shortcomings or downside of Bazaar?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

As far as I can tell (I am use Bazzite), the main problem with Bazaar was basically that it was kind of undercooked, had some bugs, both surface level and under the hood, when they first pushed it as the bundled app store for Bazzite.

But its been some months now, and they seem to have been ironed out?

I guess possibly a 'downside' could be that it only handles flatpaks, as opposed to also allowing other kinds of direct package installs, but the whole idea of Bazzite is 'no touchy core os, use flatpak'.

Or, ok, Bazaar is either GNOME only, or GNOME first, whereas Flathub pretty well supports KDE and GNOME, so, if you prefer KDE, I can see the reasoning there for preferring Flathub.

[–] Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks for the explanation, that all makes sense.