Is there a consensus on how to run Steam and games isolated from the main system? I’ve seen Flatpak mentioned in some Reddit post but I’m not sure how good the separation is. Everything about Flatpak sounds like an early work in progress, but I can be convinced otherwise.
I don’t trust Steam or the closed source games at all. Currently I’ve got a second disk with a separate system for gaming, but I very rarely have the motivation to reboot. I want to game more (and spend less time on social media) but compromising my main OS is out of the question. Stuff in the home directory should be isolated from the games. Ideally no network access too, but Steam will not work in that case.
If someone has seen a ready made guide I’d be happy to read it. Any tips would be nice too.
Sunshine is actually pretty easy to set up. Just install it on the PC, and connect from a Moonlight client on the same LAN. The complicated part is if you want to get fancy with the networking, for example if you want to access it securely from outside the home, or if you run Sunshine inside of a VM and want to access it from outside the host. But if your laptop can handle the games you want to play, turning it into a game streaming server should only take an hour tops. Definitely easier than messing with passthrough and virtualization.