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When will Steam stop using i386 packages? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by hellofriend@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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Almost every distro I've used so far ends up having problems installing Steam due to mismatching i386 packages. I've heard that they're being removed upstream. Anyone happen to know a timeline?

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[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Part of the problem is, sure, that installing an entire arch for a package touches up a lot of stuff... What I did was I set up a debootstrap schroot and added i386 arch to that so that neither they nor Steam touch my main system. Not only did I never have problems with Steam again, but I actually resumed pretty much from what I was when I got a new machine, simply by copying the schroot files over. Didn't even have to install anything (but the schroot serve on my new system itself).

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Have you tried our saviour nixos? Its pretty hot, was very very easy to install and configure.

[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tried Nix once, I liked it but overall found it too complicated to setup and manage for the [counts fingers] three programs I was using it for. Might be worth the while if I need a larger library of programs from Outside, but so far Debian and AppImages have not failed me.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

overall found it too complicated

If your used to shell it's really set and forget and a simple install would be very easy to configure. Best part being if you need to reinstall (highly unlikely for nixos being how easy it is to change OS config back) but it saves you an enormous amount of time on your subsequent installs/reinstalls. Anyway, getting preachy.

Its not just a much larger repo but also much more fresh, additionally can be used on any distro really

[–] nintendiator@feddit.cl 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh no by all means do preach. I was just about doing the same about schroot. :p

And, like I said, it's not that I don't like it. It was just too much for the rather small usecase I had back at the time. I'm pretty sure if at some point I move to a distro less featured than Debian Sid I'm gonna have to pay more attention to Flatpak and Nix again.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Debian branch will always have a special place for me as well.

Vimjoyer on youtube has some great resources for getting started in nix if you feel like dipping your toe.

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