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You seem to have run in a few issues right off the gate, usually, one would just install steam through the distro's repositories, then let steam itself install whichever proton version they need need and run re game without any problems
You might get more success trying to fix the first installation process of steam failing than messing around with flat-packs and such.
The steam installation process didn't fail, when I attempted to launch a game it would get eternally hung up on the directx script. This persisted across multiple reinstalls of the traditional steam distro in the software. Plus I literally got the advice to try flatpak from a GitHub thread.
Installing it via flatpak was the only way I could get anything to launch.
I have no intention to push you towards another distro since you will get more out of fixing issues on the one you have than just hopping, but what made you get nobara instead of a more tried and trusted distribution like base fedora, mint or arch derivatives ?
In my experience the Flatpack version causes more issues than it fixes. Try installing it through Nobara's package manager instead (I think Nobara uses dnf?)
I don't use Nobara though so someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
I second this. On fedora I had a few too many issues with the flatpak and all were solved by switching to the rpm/native version