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I’m looking through Gear Lever and don’t see anything. I only see the option to change the path where there actual Appimages are stored, not the data created by the appimages.

That doesn’t solve the issue of keeping data in a specified directory.

Flatpak cannot access the host GPU drivers, so there are runtimes for NVIDIA drivers.

What they are referring to is that the driver version on the host must match the driver version installed as a flatpak runtime. Otherwise, you may get graphical issues and crashes.

Packagekit mainly.

It also helps if you just focus on a single package format. The Snap Store’s performance is great, though I have seen some baffling QA issues with it (like categories showing up like “Devel…”). There’s also that store that Universal Blue is pushing, forget what it’s called.

It doesn’t work better or worse on Ubuntu. The fact it (partially) uses Ubuntu libraries matters very little given that the libraries are 14 years old… But I think the client now mostly relies on Debian 12 libraries to run since a year or two ago.

In this case, the DE is the main cause of issue, not the distro base.

That was a combination of the Steam client being a piece of trash (incredible complexity and technical debt*) and COSMIC. COSMIC is quite buggy when it comes to Xwayland. I’ve had plenty of issues where I close a Xwayland window, but a ghost of the window remains.

• the Steam Client runs on a combination of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian 12 libraries. It has a combination of their old VGUI code and newer Chromium GUI. It remains 32-bit and only supports X11.

It’s right. While Fedora is a community project, Red Hat does hold a special place in it as its corporate sponsor. For example, the Fedora Project Leader position must be held by a Red Hat employee.

Arch is quite an old distro and extremely popular. Valve could have chosen any distro, but settled on Arch.