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@gnuplusmatt@fosstodon.orgFedora Ostree gamers, do you install steam as a flatpak, toolbox/distrobox container or layer it?
I realise I should have put snap package as an option for the masochists 
I guess that would count as esoteric in the Fedora ecosystem
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I would say definitely distrobox. Especially since there are dedicated images for gaming like Bazzite. Though this will require some tinkering to get working as you want it to. Especially if you are adding games to menu icons.
If you want things to be as simple and painless as possible then go for the flatpack. There are some performance hits, but it's definitely easier if you want to "just play".
@enthusiast101 I'm using the flatpak myself, on Kinoite. Just interested in what others are doing
If I had a dedicated gaming PC under my TV or a steamdeck or similar, I'd definitely be on bazzite.
@gnuplusmatt I have a script to install all rpms - how to do with flatpack? #dotfiles on github...
@gnuplusmatt I have been using Flatpak Steam for quite a while and it has always worked without any issues no matter the distro.
@gnuplusmatt I mean, I'm not on Fedora, but openSUSE Kalpa, so similar, but different? Anyway, Flatpak, and quite happy with it.
@gnuplusmatt I used to use the flatpak version, and I still prefer it, but trying to add a second drive is a massive pain. Particularly, flatpaks sandboxing kept assigning a new mountpoint and I had to point steam to the new path on every boot. Using rpm-ostree now, but because steams dependencies and upstream are constantly out of sync, probably going to move it to toolbox soon.
@gnuplusmatt Comes with Bazzite automatically, I believe it's layered on by RPM (since I can get games that don't work in Flatpak Steam running fine right now)
@gnuplusmatt the future is layering everything 
I love the work Universal Blue does to make this sort of setup more accessible to people as well.