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I’ve been on Silverblue (well, Kinoite) for quite a while now, and the only issue I remember having was that I had to use flatseal once to give steam access to an external drive when adding a new library folder.
Everything seems to work fine. I’ve never been prevented from playing a game when I wanted to due to immutability or flatpak issues.
I am on VanillaOS and it's a pretty similar situation, although I will say the immutable nature makes it a little harder to find error logs and such.
SteamVR in Flatpak functions but you will get rediced performance because it can't set CAP_SYS_NICE for vrcompositor. I haven't checked if setting it manually could work though
Bazzite is silver blue plus steam. Works decently well
ive been using the steam flatpack on silverblue for a while now.
there are a few cases where steam wont start (less then once every 2 months i think)
that usually are resolved by updating the flatpack.
otherwise i have not noticed any other issues.
flatpaks might be out since I hear mixed reports about whether SteamVR even functions with the Steam flatpak.
I have a HTPC setup for steam gaming using Micro OS. I haven’t touched it in a few months, but for the earlier parts of this year I frequently played Dead Cells, Art of Rally, Bloodstained, Vampire Survivor, Stardew Valley, games like that.
I used a couple of PS4 controllers via Bluetooth, just using the touchpad on the controller for if I needed to use a mouse cursor on the desktop or something.
One gripe was that I couldn’t get MicroOS to auto login, so I had to keep a keyboard next to the tv so I could sign in everything I wanted to play a game.
Flatpak has it largely covered at this point, especially with most DE's stores supporting their update prompts. Come to NixOs and meet the misses