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