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    [–] Moc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    No, they are right.

    It took an enormous amount of fiddling for me to get games working on Debian 12

    [–] yiliu@informis.land 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've been using Steam in FlatPak on NixOS for a couple years now.

    The only games I've found that didn't work were due to anti-cheat rootkit stuff, which would probably be a bigger deal if I cared about online gaming. And I've had to change the Proton version a couple times, because the beta (default) seems to break a game occasionally. Overall: it's astoundingly good compared to where it was 5+ years ago.

    [–] Moc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I agree with you, but it’s just not ready for the average person.

    Case in point: regardless of which version of Steam I install it goes into a crash-restart cycle if I open it from gnome. The only way to run it is to type “steam” in the console.

    The issue persists regardless of whether I use the .deb or flatpak.