Whenever I attempt to connect to a minigame hosted by someone else or any plaza, my Steam client and game crashes at once at the same time. I am pretty sure the game was working fine back in October of this year but as of 27th at the least I am unable to connect. The only thing I can really do right now is load into my condos.
I am on an up to date Nobara install using the suggested Proton 10 version. Experimental, Ge-Proton 10.11, and various other versions also have the same issue.
Edit 1: I have managed to connect and load into a lobby from a flatpak install of Steam, as I was trying from Native Steam earlier attempts, so I suspect it’s a dependency that the flatpak steam contains but Nobara overupdated or somehow, got removed. Will attempt to look into which one as I can and say which one(s) as they come up.
Edit 2: Unfortunately, nothing found, it sorta just fixed itself far as I can surmise? Either somehow installing the sandbox natured flatpak fixed it, or running Tower Unite through the flatpak edited it’s compatibility layer in a way that allowed Native Steam to run it perfectly suddenly. I did not run Nobara updater between posting this and now either… so I really dunno what else could’ve happened.
Not sure this’ll help anyone else who gets this issue and needs it fixed but I guess it’ll be a lead for someone down the road.
I’d suggest trying to install steam through whatever package manager you’re using, log in, install steam, letting it auto-select the proton build to use, and just hitting play. That’s how I’ve been playing for a long time, across multiple distros, usually in debian or arch families, but also one or two rhel distros. These days I’m on endeavouros and its still working just fine like that, so long as steam doesn’t lose connection and need a restart, but that’s not even a ‘nix thing, that’s a steam thing lol
That’s what I first tried before it decided to sort itself on the day of posting, though dnf wouldn’t reinstall dependencies alongside Steam and I’m relatively new to Linux-isms and couldn’t find a command to reinstall Steam+Dependencies anywhere online.
Though I guess somehow installing flatpak Steam might’ve correct a dependency accidentally, though from what I understand about flatpaks, that shouldn’t have done anything Native steam would notice? At least if I’m understanding the nature of flatpaks correctly.
Time being it’s functioning fine now, but if it breaks again, I’ll just uninstall and reinstall Steam via konsole to see if that fixes it and makes the package manager notice a missing/broken dependency.
I’m really not sure what you mean by steam+dependencies - I’ve been only on linux for a long time now, there’s never been dependencies other than the ones the package manager will grab for you. There are other clients to be grabbed maybe, but for steam? Ever since it got proton bundled in, using it itself hasn’t been an issue with TU or most other games I’m aware of.
You might be able to leave that copy alone and just install steam from whatever package manager came with your distro, but there shouldn’t be much more than a sudo apt install steam or yay -Sy steam to it anymore in my experience.