Installing Steam

Installation

There are two main ways to install Steam:

• Flatpak
• RPM-OSTree

Flatpak

The flatpak version of Steam is good for 95% of use cases but niche stuff that needs deeper access to your system won't work. The only thing that hasn't worked for me is Steam VR. For VR on linux I recommend WiVRn that works with Flatpak Steam.

GUI

Open up the included app store and search "steam". You should find it in there.

CLI

This will download steam from it's Flathub page.

flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam

rpm-ostree

This will install Steam on system level. So if you are having problems with Steam VR or something like that you can go with this route.

CLI

This will reboot your system after install so you can use the app.

rpm-ostree install steam && \
systemctl reboot