Victor

Cool, yeah, no worries. 🫶 I hope someone finds it helpful!

Right but you can’t change the native runtime per game. You can only change the compatibility layer (Proton) globally and per game. The runtime is static obviously, and either used or not used. I’m guessing Proton bypasses the native runtime by having the game interacting with it? Or maybe it is a translation layer? Both? Anyway, doesn’t matter. 🙂 What wasn’t the problem.

But I’d still be interested in how to check which version I have, just to know.

Edit: hold on, does the runtime show up in the same list as Proton versions? That would explain what you all are talking about. And only for native Linux games. That’s why I haven’t seen it before I guess.

I think it might have been a denial of service type thing as explained in other replies. I didn’t reboot or anything and it just worked fine now. All good. 👍 Thanks for all the help though.

Almost every reply is also explaining what the runtime is. 😆 I know what it’s for, guys, thanks! ❤️🙏👍

Oh okay, I guess that’s in the main Steam settings, not per game as the other person suggested.

The runtime is for launching games, not Steam itself. You can check the runtime selection in Compatibility tab of Steam and of each game. If your Steam Flatpak install doesn’t work, the issue is likely somewhere else.

Hold up, are you talking about the compatibility layer, “Proton”? I’m not sure that’s what we’re talking about here. Proton is up to version 9 and 10, not 4.0.

I have yet to use ChatGPT or any kind of coding copilot. No need. I can search for information online and produce code without it/them.

I wince when I see people unashamedly say shit like “should I just watch a movie on the plane or should I actually try to code without an agent?”

Like bruh did you forget your whole ass education in a year or whatever time coding agents have been around? Or maybe they had none to begin with.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam#Flatpak

🤷‍♂️ Seemed like a good way to install it. I had used the native package before but I think I tried flatpak because of some issue or another with the native version.

It’s been working great for years now so, no issues until now.

I usually install big corporate software with flatpak if I can help it, to keep them as isolated as possible. Slack, Discord, Steam, etc. Stuff like that. 👍

Seems like I’m not the only one with this issue.

Been happening though. Maybe it’s a coincidence or it’s happening again or something. Interesting theory though.

I’d suggest trying to launch the flatpak from the terminal and seeing if there’s any strange logging.

Already did that but I couldn’t see anything that I could recognize as abnormal. The “Connecting” window shows up, actually. But it just stops loading for a second and then it just says “Reaping pid” in the console and it closes the process.

I know what a runtime is, but I’d like to check which version of it I’m running. 🙂 Wouldn’t be very difficult but I’m this instance I don’t know how.

I 👏 don’t 👏 want 👏 or 👏 need 👏 AI 👏 on 👏 my 👏 computer!

Good thing I don’t use Windows so I won’t have to deal with it whatsoever. 😌

Funny this shows up when all of a sudden Steam won’t launch anymore on my Arch install. It’s installed via flatpak.

How do I even check which version of the Steam runtime I am running? The flatpak version of Steam is just 1.0.something.other.

Stop assuming everyone is US please.

I didn’t, and usually don’t, so that’s all good and fine. 👍

Healthcare around the world is stingy.

I will highly doubt any place would do this. Nobody making these decisions knows enough about computer performance, I bet you. Government decision makers don’t, for sure. 😆

You think healthcare businesses (I forget healthcare is a business in America, sorry) would be caught using Steam Machines as work stations? They would risk ridicule. Wouldn’t be taken seriously.

Maybe a startup would do it. If they did development of smaller shit like apps or simple web dev. But yeah no, no business would do this because businesses need support deals.

😂 I’m on the shitter at work damn you, can’t be laughing out loud!

So many tiny little knots

Gotcha!

a distro […] including mine

Must not be Arch since you didn’t mention you use Arch 😅, …

… wwwiiich is what I use btw. I use Arch.

/jk, probably not even funny, I slept like 6 hrs combined in the last 48 hrs…

Oh that’s some good ass lore right there. Love how it builds up this image of the danger of the object but never divulges what could actually happen if interacting with it in the wrong way.