This isn't a guide, just something i think may help. To install Steam on an Arch-based distro in most of the cases a simple sudo pacman -S steam will do just fine.
The installation will ask you to select a valid vulkan package from a list. And in most of the cases that's just fine... most of them.
Then you have your very "picky" old nvidia GPU which works only with a specific old nvidia driver and if you try to install anything else, there will be a conflict. Now you can try to remove the old (working) drivers and try your luck. But looking online i find a simple way to skip this passage and install Steam.
sudo pacman -S steam --assume-installed lib32-vulkan-driver
Fuck Nvidia and their powering AI systems for Netayahu's genocide. Team Red all the way.
let's not act like massive multinational corporations care about us, AMD is also ethically miserable, as is intel and everyone else.
Something something “Nazi Jew-Counting computers were supplied by IBM” I guess.
There's a big difference between "there's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism," and "these guys are making autonomous killing machines carrying out a genocide."
I'm not pro-corporate anybody (see username), but if we can't stick up a big middle finger to genocide profiteers, to whom can we?
that's not what i'm saying though: what i'm saying is that AMD and intel aren't any different from nvidia, they're all the same shitheads that are happy to pretend they're pro-consumer and not evil when they have the excuse of being the underdog.
There are companies that try to not be evil (or at least minimally evil as required by capitalism) but AMD isn't one of them. Go support RISC-V and openpower instead.
Hate to break it to you, but AMD is also contributing to genocide as much as they possibly can (Nvidia is still beating them in that aspect as well)