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| How did you installed Steam ? |
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15% |
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| Other |
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2% |
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Adrien.D
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Joined: 18 Jan 2015
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 Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:01 pm Post subject: POLL : Steam users : How Steam installed ? |
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Hello,
Just a little poll to know how did you install Steam, and why ?
I'm curious 
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Ralphred
l33t
Joined: 31 Dec 2013
Posts: 725
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Via overlay, because "specific state" chroots for a single package that doesn't need sandboxing are a disease. |
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sprmcell
n00b
Joined: 26 Jul 2022
Posts: 4
Location: /bin/bash
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: POLL : Steam users : How Steam installed ? |
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| Adrien.D wrote: | Hello,
Just a little poll to know how did you install Steam, and why ?
I'm curious |
on my older gentoo install flatpak would give me slightly worse performance and some games would just crash, no idea why, but because of this i use overlay
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mega_flow
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 26 Jun 2016
Posts: 97
Location: Belgium
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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flatpak to keep a minimal gentoo install ( nomultilib and allot of useflags disable)
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The Main Man
Veteran
Joined: 27 Nov 2014
Posts: 1172
Location: /run/user/1000
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:28 pm Post subject: Re: POLL : Steam users : How Steam installed ? |
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| sprmcell wrote: | | Adrien.D wrote: | Hello,
Just a little poll to know how did you install Steam, and why ?
I'm curious |
on my older gentoo install flatpak would give me slightly worse performance and some games would just crash, no idea why, but because of this i use overlay |
Flatpak option is great, the only downside is mesa stack, which is pretty old, still on v21 atm, soon to be upgraded finally to v22.08 in August.
I mean, that's why you see crashes and worse performance. |
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carcajou
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Joined: 10 Jun 2008
Posts: 249
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Flatpak. I'm using nomultilib profile.
Initially tried with Debian chroot (like here, but with Debian using dev-util/debootstrap instead of Gentoo https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#Chroot), but there were issue with video glitches which I did not want to bother at the time, considering I actually do not game that much these days... |
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Taigo
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Nov 2022
Posts: 105
Location: the Netherlands
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:06 am Post subject: |
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I simply just used the Gentoo wiki page on steam.
I just did it this way because its incredibly easy to just copy paste all this.
I would assume most people do it the same way since it's the first result you get by googling steam on gentoo. |
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Chiitoo
Administrator
Joined: 28 Feb 2010
Posts: 2754
Location: Here and Away Again
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| Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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I believe I'm still mainly using the manual "install" that I did when the Linux beta client was first made available back in late 2012...
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Taigo
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Nov 2022
Posts: 105
Location: the Netherlands
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| Chiitoo wrote: | | I believe I'm still mainly using the manual "install" that I did when the Linux beta client was first made available back in late 2012... |
wait you never reinstalled OS, change system, switch hard drive/ssd during that time you you are still using this same installation? |
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Hu
Administrator
Joined: 06 Mar 2007
Posts: 23121
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Gentoo never needs a reinstall. My current software environment is on its third CPU, and I've switched out the hard drive at least once due to a drive failure - but I caught the failure before the old one became unreadable, so no data was lost and no reinstall was needed. |
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Chiitoo
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Joined: 28 Feb 2010
Posts: 2754
Location: Here and Away Again
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| Taigo wrote: | | Chiitoo wrote: | | I believe I'm still mainly using the manual "install" that I did when the Linux beta client was first made available back in late 2012... |
wait you never reinstalled OS, change system, switch hard drive/ssd during that time you you are still using this same installation? |
Indeed, could consider this my first (successful) install of Gentoo from 2010 (some files still around with that date), which is when I started using Gentoo (and learning Linux at all).
Similar to Hu, this one has moved from spinning rust to an SSD, and the CPU went from a Phenom to a Ryzen, which of course means the motherboard and everything with it changed as well. :]
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