Installing Steam

Why is system package not included by default?

I used to include steam with the image but it regularly caused errors while building the image so I swapped to the flatpak version.

Installation

There are two main ways to install Steam:

Flatpak (per-installed package)

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.

GUI

Open up the included app store and search "steam".

Command

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.

Command

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

rpm-ostree install steam && \
systemctl reboot