Bazzite runs more or less the latest Fedora version of Steam, and then has a ton of custom scripts, as well as accompanying core-Fedora library utilities to accomodate integrating Steam more fully into Fedora, so that things like Gaming Mode/Desktop Mode, various other under-the-hood things basically work as they do in SteamOS.

Doing it the way they do it, this makes it so you can use the various u-just terminal commands and pre-packaged flatpak apps to tweak things that basically affect or touch or may touch Steam.

So uh, right now, on my Bazzite Steam Deck, if I do:

rpm -qa | grep "steam"

(which is basically Fedora-speak for 'show me all installed libraries that have "steam" in them)

I get:

steam-1.0.0.85-3.fc43.i686

So that would be the current, Fedora 43 version of Steam, from the Terra repo, I think... its not the 44/Rawhide version.

Where the Terra repo is the community repo, sort of roughly analagous to the AUR, compared to mainline Arch libraries.

https://fedora.pkgs.org/43/terra/steam-0:1.0.0.85-3.fc43.i686.rpm.html

That command also lists out a number of steam-related utility libraries, which comprise parts of the core, 'no touchy', atomic part of Bazzite.

[–] gingernate@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

Hmm interesting thanks!