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tropicalia

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Registered: 2025-11-13

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[SOLVED]Steam with multilib repository vs Steam with native runtime

Currently the recommendation in the documentation is to use Steam with multilib repository however Steam just update the Linux native runtime: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/v … ds-64-bit/

Should we now gravitate towards the Steam native runtime?

Steam installation current recommendation:  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam

Last edited by tropicalia (2025-11-22 15:27:41)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]Steam with multilib repository vs Steam with native runtime

You're grossly misinterpreting things. First off, Steam just updated their runtime, not native runtime. The native runtime is for using Arch packages instead of Steam's runtime, and the native runtime was recently dropped from the multilib repo to the AUR. There is no recommendation to use the native runtime.

tropicalia

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Registered: 2025-11-13

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Re: [SOLVED]Steam with multilib repository vs Steam with native runtime

I think I got my wires crossed like you are saying. The comparison in the recommendations is about the packages not the runtime.

I think we can mark this one as solved.

Thank you!

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED]Steam with multilib repository vs Steam with native runtime

I think we can mark this one as solved.

Please prepend [Solved] to the thread title (edit first post)

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