Help, ... STEAM install in NixOs 21.05.2478.a445f582988

I went through a lot of hoops to get steam up and running about a year ago. That time the option link didn’t exist on stable. Which made it even harder for me to set it up, as I had to do all the 32bit stuff manual, I got a lot of help from chat back then.

NixOS sadly has a bit of a documentation problem. But I usually look in this order:

  • NixOS Search
    • Worth looking at when trying to install something new, you could find the steam switch there too (didn’t exist when I last looked :wink: )
  • nixpkgs manual has most useful info, but also nix manual and NixOS manual
    • There’s a lot of info in those, and they still somehow manage to be hard to search/read despite being split in three. Work is underway to render it more nicely, I believe.
  • This discourse
  • Nix user repositories
    • You can find a lot of people’s configurations by clicking on links here, with some amount of searchability. Useful to get examples from (and sometimes packages)
  • The nixpkgs source
    • As with all software, a fair bit of stuff ends up hidden in the belly of the code. It’s worth looking here if something is confusing; but you will need to learn nix.
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thanks, I will be following like that : - )

thanks, that was the final touch to steam start : - )

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