I recently installed Flatpak so I could give my applications the right permissions. I gave as much as possible to Steam. It was working fine until today when it refuses to start. I don't know what to do. I don't know why it has randomly decided not to work, and it doesn't seem to be running in the background. Steam literally does not turn on, and it's from Flathub. When I brought up Steam, Proton was mentioned a lot, so I tagged it with that. I'm sorry if it's the wrong tag.
#Steam not starting all of a sudden
vital holly
lucid cape
have you tried removing and re-downloading steam?
vital holly
have you tried removing and re-downloading steam?
should i re-install it without flathub then?
lucid cape
that'd what i'd try todo yeah
flatpak remove steam* (i think) from the terminal first
vital holly
im not having a good time with flatpaks
I miss .deb just being all you needed.
okay the install has borked and it doesn't even recognize it's installed
woohoo
lucid cape
flatpak purge steam* ?
lucid cape
yeah that's what i though 
i main windows but do some linux usuage too
vital holly
should i just use synaptic to install the deb
im guessing synaptic doesn't use flats
lucid cape
yeah try that, then it should just update
vital holly
i got it to uninstall from the menu
idk why flathub errors with Steam does fine with Brave / Discord
lucid cape
i found this, seems to be an issue for a while https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/issues/240
vital holly
so Steam just...does that?
lucid cape
seems so, flatpaks work quite well in regards to software like discord and spotify but still has a ways togo
lucid cape
flatpak uninstall --delete-data -v app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/x86_64/stable this should work
vital holly
Discord - mic wouldn't be recognized and i had to unplug and replug it then Discord recced it again
lucid cape
try that before you download the synaptic version
vital holly
so I might just get rid of the flats
vital holly
__flatpak uninstall --delete-data -v app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/x86_64/stable__...
I already removed it with right click apparently
lucid cape
oh? okay :) so steam should just work as intended now
vital holly
yeah Steam is probably gonna just run now
is the Synaptic version of programs worse in any way
lucid cape
nope, from my understanding it's basically an oldschool app store
still downloads new software and some stuff which isn't even on the app stores of most distros lol
lucid cape
i think it's just something wanting to compete with snap from ubuntu lol
vital holly
You know what the old saying goes: it goes if it ain't broke don't fix it dabs
thank you for all your help
lucid cape
no problem, any issues just pop into the discord, have a good rest of your day/night
vital holly
well now it's saying it won't install certain games it was before
"for windows"
yeah certain programs won't be installable that were before.
so i reinstalled it with the usual thing and flatseal shows no permissions with it
I'm just not gonna touch flatseal anymore
i probably fked the permissions or something
okay I'm genuinely confused. Programs I used to run just fine are still being classified as "Windows Only"
when they're not.
Okay, correction: now using actual flathub again. But I don't get it, you said it was the same, but different programs don't work in diff pkg versions
and now it won't run through flathub at all
@lucid cape help
i figured it out, I messed with the flatseal stuff too much
I just need to not touch it