I made the leap and ditched Windows and made the switch. I’m not married to Pop! OS, it just happened to be the first distro I tried and has been mostly a breeze setting up and getting used to but I do have a couple issues I wasn’t able to resolve this weekend. Hoping someone else has seen similar.

  • Cannot add library in Steam: this is likely due to me misconfiguring the drive, mount, or fstab. When I try to add a drive in Steam it allows me to browse the drive and select a folder but then nothing is actually added to Steam. The drive was newly formatted with 2 partitions, both ext4. Unfortunately I am at work and cannot get blkid, df, fdisk, fstab, etc. but my hope was someone had found a better guide than the ones I have tried thus far.

  • Helldivers 2 audio issue: crackling and audio cutting out.; from what I’ve read it sounds like a throughput issue with the sound server (POP OS default is pulse audio). I came across a couple guides for troubleshooting audio issues with HD2 in Linux that sought to address this with pulse audio and others for pipewire but none of those ended up being helpful. Again, the hope is someone here has had a similar experience and can share what helped them or get me pointed in a good direction for troubleshooting.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    2·
    10 hours ago

    You are prolyl using flatpak steam which doesn’t have permissions to access your library

    Download flatseal in platpak and add the directory where you want the librarh to be there.

    You can do this manually via CLI but that’s entirely different can of worms that flat seal easily solves.

    • stringereOPEnglish
      1·
      13 minutes ago

      I was, used the built in pop shop to remove the flatpak install.
      I reinstalled via deb from command line and it’s all working.
      Thank you for the advice on flatseal, I’ll look into that.

    • stringereOPEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I think this is exactly what my issue is. Last night when I was mucking about I noticed the deb Steam package in the pop shop and had a vague recollection of warnings against the flatpak install for similar reasons.

      • Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        I tend to like using flatpak, but for Steam, I find that installing it through their website (ie, actually going to their website and downloading the install file) is the best way to get Steam

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        1·
        8 hours ago

        flatpak install is fine, i would argue it is better due to some sandboxing, flatseal is your solution.

        but if you feeling like raw dawging some CLI, it is a good little skill to have in Linux land, no doubt.

        • stringereOPEnglish
          1·
          21 minutes ago

          Command line makes this rockin’ world go round.