I am deadset on not having 32bit libraries outside of a sandbox on my PC. I’m supposed to get a refund on all faulty PC parts I had so I ordered new ones and once they arrive, I will have a fresh system. I used flatpak Steam on my current system and it had no access to my download folder which I found slightly irritating. What would be better on Arch for Steam only: Snap or Flatpak? I am now partial to trying Snap but I figured I’ll ask in case anyone has any great/terrible experiences to share. c:
You can use flatseal to change flatpak permissions. It itself is available on flathub.
This is the correct answer.
I run the Flatpak variant and I am super happy that it only has very limited access to my system.
I do not trust them since this happened some years ago:
https://news.softpedia.com/news/Steam-for-Linux-Can-Delete-Home-Folder-with-rm-rf-470247.shtml
You can always override paths in Flatpak to point to specific host locations.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1086529/how-to-give-a-flatpak-app-access-to-a-directory
Doesn’t worth the potential data loss or other weird issues in my opinion.
You can access all Steam “payload” in the app directory anyways.
${HOME}/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/SteamAnd your game data is in
....../userdata/YOUR_STEAM_ID
