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This is off topic, but why is it that if I go to their download Steam web page on openSUSE, it has me download the .deb package?
Presumably they just either haven’t made a proper package for opensuse, or their platform detection isn’t perfect. Since Debian based distros are the most common, sometimes companies will only distribute Deb files…
In any case, I’d personally recommend getting steam via flatpak, it works quite well.
The flatpak is what I eventually settled on, but I was a little confused initially. Upon initially installing the flatpak, I was having some minor issues, so I was going to try to see if installing it natively was any better, but there seemed to be no way to.
I eventually figured out that I really just needed to launch Steam on my dedicated GPU instead of my integrated graphics. Now it runs fine.
It used to be that everything was packaged in an RPM, now DEB runs the show.