How ironic that despite Steam from Flathub might not start on Fedora 38,
flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.valvesoftware.Steam.flatpakref && `
flatpak update app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/x86_64/stable --commit=98f034b154eed70b957bedcba0a5ce3785e70999b4aef85e1f6dd66f2eb15ff7
worked for me.
rokejulianlockhart
(`{3rd: "Beedell", 1st: "Roke"}`{.JSON5})
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I was able to install and run steam (from rpmfusion) on my fedora 40 test bed with no problems
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@computersavvy, how weird, considering that I only installed this OS yesterday, and I’ve installed solely VSCode, GIMP, and Steam. Anything worth checking to diagnose the cause?
kparal
(Kamil Páral)
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kparal
(Kamil Páral)
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This could be a good candidate for a Common Issue, if it really affected a large number of people. Let’s see if it does, first. Then we can nominate it.
I can personally run Steam on F40 (installed from Flathub) just fine.
@rokejulianlockhart Your reports are extremely hard to read. They feels like random characters scattered around the page. If you want people to care and get involved in your topics, I suggest that you make them easier to read. That would involve changing your name to a regular name instead of pseudo code (it drags my eyes and distracts me for every single comment you make), avoiding pasting a link without any explanation and avoiding too much mixing text with URLs (especially long URLs), like here. Name your hyperlinks, or visually indent them into a special paragraph and use traditional [1][2][3] notation, if plain text is needed. Make it look and read good. Those are just recommendations, but might get you better feedback from people.
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kparal
(Kamil Páral)
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In my case I also see steamwebhelper crashes, but they don’t prevent Steam from working.
In your traceback, I see:
Module /run/host/usr/lib64/dri/armada-drm_dri.so from rpm mesa-24.0.0-2.fc40.x86_64
I have no idea what it is. What are your system specs? Architecture, GPU vendor? From a quick search, this looks like something ARM-related, which is outside regular mainstream hardware and is more likely to suffer from issues like this. In that case, a report in Mesa upstream or Valve repository is probably the best way forward.
Had you done a full system upgrade after the install using sudo dnf upgrade --refresh -y followed by a reboot before running steam?
I had done that.
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Many of us use a display name different than the username which is used to log in.
That display name can be whatever and however you choose it, but it is certainly unusual to see a pseudo code name such as you use, and I totally ignore the strange config of that display name. The username seems easy to understand to me. Though pronunciation may not follow the structure that is often the case when trying to phonetically pronounce names from different languages. After all, we do not pronounce names when typing on a forum, so why would that even be an issue in the display name? The display name does not have to even be your real name, and it DOES allow separated sections as shown by many users here and by the way yours is displayed

@computersavvy, I truly apologize, but I’m uncertain of what you’re saying in most of your response, although I’m thankful. For instance, I didn’t realize that my username was potentially problematic. Might you elaborate?
Not that it is wrong, merely that it is jarring to see code like that in the image displayed as a user name on the forum.
You have the choice to have the display name exactly as you choose, and discourse displays the ‘display name’ literally and does not interpret code in that area.
@computersavvy, you appear unaware that name syntax differs from person to person based upon how their parents decided to name them: If you ever have the opportunity to visit Mongolia or China - basically anywhere in Asia which utilizes non-Latin or Cyrillic characters for their primary language - the name order is reversed, even when utilizing something like Japanese Romaji (Latin transliteration). That’s why explicit definition (as a concept, irrespective of its implementation) is useful.
I’ve tried a myriad of solutions, and this is the sole one which appears to at least work everywhere.
Anyway, this is off-topic - we should discuss this somewhere else.
the way the name is displayed does not matter to me, and apparently does not matter to most users. I only added my comments to what was voiced by @kparal in post 7
I agree this is off topic but do have to wonder why your concerns are so vehement when no one else seems to need to voice similar concerns.
@computersavvy, I have found that few else appear to care about supposedly “minor” problems like name misinterpretation. A minor problem is as much of a problem to me as a problem of any superior significance.
Were I to improve the name field, the forename, middlename, and surname would be separate, and a field for pronounciation would be present (like the vCard custom property explained in the Microsoft Exchange Supported vCard Property Documentation on GitHub).
@computersavvy, yes, albeit via plasma-discover-6.0.2-2.fc40.x86_64:
RokeJulianLockhart@sayw4i:~$ sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
[sudo] password for RokeJulianLockhart:
Fedora 40 - x86_64 108 kB/s | 16 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 681 kB/s | 443 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Debug 30 kB/s | 11 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Debug 16 kB/s | 4.9 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 3.5 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora 40 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 - Debug 2.8 kB/s | 997 B 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates 45 kB/s | 22 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug 130 kB/s | 17 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Test Updates 168 kB/s | 12 kB 00:00
Fedora 40 - x86_64 - Test Updates Debug 23 kB/s | 11 kB 00:00
google-chrome 12 kB/s | 1.3 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free 22 kB/s | 6.7 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free - Test Updates 22 kB/s | 6.4 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree 24 kB/s | 6.8 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Steam 21 kB/s | 6.3 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Steam Debug 57 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Test Updates 22 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Visual Studio Code 13 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
RokeJulianLockhart@sayw4i:~$
in order to ensure I keep this system exactly as it should be.