So I have been running Silverblue for a bit and while I like GNOME well enough, I wanted to see if the grass was greener on the other side, with Kinoite. So I made sure I didn’t have any GNOME packages overlayed as this can cause issues, then I rebased on Kinoite. Everything went fairly well. There was only one problem…
Steam, installed via Flatpak, worked flawlessly (for a DRM platform…) on Silverblue. However, I could not keep it open on Kinoite. It would open, sometimes it wouldn’t even get all the way done a Steam client update before crashing. Just constant crashes.
I ran it from the command line and there was no specific error that occurred when the client crashed, and there was no error.log or similarly named files in the ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/ directory. It’s really strange because it works great in Silverblue.
Originally I thought it was because I rebased on the original Kinoite 35 release instead of /updates. But I tried again a couple days later with the updates tree and it still crashed. I removed the flatpak directory and that let it start for a little longer (it seemed at first glance) but it still crashed. I ended up deleting my entire games library (not a big issue, can just reinstall) trying to troubleshoot.
Is there perhaps a list of packages that are installed in Silverblue and in Kinoite perhaps? Maybe there’s something in the former that is missing in the latter.