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There are a bunch of games on steam labeled as "playable", but that silently fail when I attempt to launch them. Always the same issue, and it isn't specific to a single game. Binding of Isiac was one of these until recently, where it mysteriously fixed itself while I wasn't paying attention. Titanfall 2 is another, which I'm still struggling with.
If anyones interested, I'll copy paste the steam logs. I'm typing this from my phone, so I can't do that from here.
What gpu do you have? Have you checked protondb? What version of proton do you have selected for steam play? What version of steam are you using? Flatpak, deb/rpm or snap?
I'm using Proton Experimental. While I have checked ProtonDB, I wasn't able to find a solution.
I did find that quite a large number of people suggested I put the following in the launch options:
for var in $(printenv | cut -d= -f1); do export $var=$(echo ${!var} | rev | cut -c1-1000 | rev); done ; OPENSSL_ia32cap=~0x20000000 %command% -window -noborder
But it didn't change anything.
can you answer the question abou the steam version?
Sorry, forgot about that. I'm using the latest steam beta, at the time of writing.
i didnt mean that, are you using the deb, snap or flatpak?
Sorry, Flatpak
I edited my original comment to contain some other system information and the logs.
Have you tried installing the deb/rpm and seekng if the game works then?
I haven't tried any of the other versions in a while, mostly because it takes forever to install, but I can do that. I'll point out that this issue has been going on for years, and I had issues with all variants of steam I've tried before.
I'll download steam a few other times from various package managers to see if any of them work now that some time has passed. In particular, I'll try rpm-ostree layering, docker, and nix.
(edit)
I've tried installing steam a few different ways.
First, I tried installing with nix.
nix profile install nixpkgs#steam resulted in an error about non-free software that couldn't be bypassed, so I tried devbox global add steam@latest which did work, but only in so much as it installed. It failed to launch steam, never mind any games.
Then I tried docker, since it's what I used prior to flatpak. I first ran
podman pull ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch-gnome then
ujust distrobox bazzite-arch ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch-gnome
This functioned well, but had the same exact problems as the flatpak version.
I was unable to install the rpm-ostree version. Apparently, Bluefin doesn't include it in the default repositories.
I did test to see if 'brew' had steam in its packages, but unfortunately it didn't.
Is this on one of Fedora's images or on one of uBlue's images? Regardless, could you specify what exactly we're dealing with?
I'm running ublue-os/bluefin-dx:latest It's an offshoot of Silverblue
Thanks for the clarification! We actually run very similar systems; I'm on the hardened Bluefin-dx image as per secureblue.
~~Regarding Steam, Bazzite -one of Bluefin's uBlue siblings- actually switched over to RPM Fusion's Steam due to issues with the Flatpak.~~ EDIT: The former is false. The Deck images have always been on RPM Steam. Only the Desktop images moved to RPM Steam (from Distrobox-Arch) for support consistency reasons. Appreciation goes out to [email protected] for correcting me!
I don't know what exactly is the way to go for you. But I can suggest the following possibilities (from own experience):
rpm-ostree.Bazzite lead developer here, we actually never used the flatpak. Our first release had it installed in a distrobox container on the desktop images. Deck images always had RPM Steam because Steam is essentially functioning as a desktop environment there. We moved them both to be RPM for support consistency reasons.
Thank you so much for correcting me! I'll edit my earlier post to reflect this! Your work on Bazzite is much appreciated! Thank you!
Wait what distro are you on?
I'm running ublue-os/bluefin-dx:latest It's an offshoot of Silverblue
I played through the entirety of TF2 on Linux a while back, so I'm curious as to what's the issue. Please share more details about your system and steam setup when you can.
I added some system details to my original comment, if your still interested. I also included the logs from when I tried to run Titanfall 2
Are you using a NTFS drive to store the games?
I'm using Btrfs. I'm not that experienced with Linux, does that kind of thing usually cause issues?
Does anybody use openrc? Ive used systemd on my gentoo install until recently my x99 motherboard just killed itself. Which i had LUKS + secureboot + tpm which left my gentoo install unrecoverable. I have a stage 4 tarball which is 2 months old that i can recover from. But im almost tempted to try to run OpenRC as my init system. Does anybody use openrc and if so what experiences have you had in comparison to systemd?
I know theres more steps to getting services setup compared to systemd at least in the gentoo install guide.
Can't really answer, but since no one gave any input I will share this: I switched over to systemd (from sysVinit) because of Docker (I wanted to have my own local searxng, ublocky gluetun, and whatnot).
How does one simplify distro hopping? Do you have a workflow to make it easier to set everything up?
Look up how to have /home on a seperate partition, it lets you keep your user files when distro-hopping
Is there a way to avoid creating a new one, or do you just replace the new one in /etc/fstab?
Do you mean: You currently have a separate partition mounted as /home and want to reuse this when installing a new distro?
Yes, there is a way to avoid creating a new one:
/, /home, swap.!!! For the /home partition make sure to uncheck recreate file system, format or alike. !!!
This is the partition currently filled with your data!
virtual machine?
A few days ago I upgraded my gpu from nvidia to amd (rx 6700) and since then once in a while (a few times a day) my entire desktop freezes for a couple of seconds. I have mesa and lib32 mesa installed. Arch + X11 + bspwm Any ideas?
Does anyone have a Thin client setup using Linux? I did have a virtual Manjaro KDE on my Proxmox until an update borked it. Yesterday, I setup a Gnome VM because they have native RDP support. It's still suboptimal. Content is still lagging and there's tearing. Additionally, I would like a way to use the webcam+headset attached locally to my thin client as if they were connected to the virtual machine.
Previously, I have been Scripting around with USB IP but only with half success.
I just wanted to know your experiences
perhaps it's worth trying https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/guacamole-docker.html (I do not have the pleasure, but it's what I have on my radar) Good luck!