"Steam is included in the Linux Mint 16 repositories and you shouldn't have issues installing it from the package manager. Or you can always "apt-get install steam". Like most Linux applications, you are better off installing the application from the package manager instead of from the upstream website."
Fedora is just a buggy distro, I used it once upon a time, it's simply not stable.
Arch is just a buggy distro, I used it once upon a time, it's simply not stable.
We could play this game all day to make stinkytaco's point.