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Steam Client Beta - Enable VA-API DRM hardware decoding on Linux for Remote Play
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I think that's a relatively recent change in the big distros with lots of business in the US. Fedora started that afaik and Ubuntu followed.
Other distros still build mesa with full vaapi support.
One more reason to run the Flatpak version then.