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by Valodim 1141 days ago
The common advice is just using the steam-run wrapper. It will run the binary in an ubuntu-esque fhs environment, which is what must binaries you get expect. Worked every time for me.

Granted, it's not ideal that this kind of hint is needed for such an important workflow. Oh well. All the rest still makes it easily worth it for me.

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Ahh that's right, I remember using the steam-run wrapper a lot.

If I remember correctly, it would work in 80% of cases and fail on the last 20% (usually if some library is missing or if it has some strange binary installation procedure).

The 20% made it not worth it for me to use as a desktop environment. I still see the value in it for server configurations, though.