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What has been your experience with Flatpak?
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It's great if the pak meets your needs. For Steam the pak didn't meet my needs because it doesn't allow you to add additional library locations. As long as it's set up in a way that works for you then it's a big time saver.
I haven't tried it but doesn't flatseal let you setup steam's permissions to allow external/additional directories or mounts?
What's stopping steam's access to other directories?
Ah, I haven't heard of flatseal before.
The trick is knowing how to do it. I still haven't fixed my Zoom install to successfully download emojis (which I suspect requires a filesystem permission it doesn't have by default)...
It works when set up with flatseal.