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Replace steam with flatpak I am no longer willing to accept hours upon hours of debugging just to get the client to work. I don’t get why they would ship a 32-bit GTK2 executable that uses CEF with its sandbox disabled in 2024. Obviously, this makes debugging quite hard as things don’t work well, even when they work. This leaves red herrings everywhere (“Is this segfault a symptom of the issue I’m facing or is that also happening to other users where it works fine?”). Flatpak also seems to have quite good sandboxing features when Flatseal is used for every application to take away any unnecessary permissions.
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021-2024 Simon Bruder <simon@sbruder.de>
Relicense This applies the REUSE specification to the repository, so the licensing information can be tracked for every file individually.
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#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
Replace steam with flatpak I am no longer willing to accept hours upon hours of debugging just to get the client to work. I don’t get why they would ship a 32-bit GTK2 executable that uses CEF with its sandbox disabled in 2024. Obviously, this makes debugging quite hard as things don’t work well, even when they work. This leaves red herrings everywhere (“Is this segfault a symptom of the issue I’m facing or is that also happening to other users where it works fine?”). Flatpak also seems to have quite good sandboxing features when Flatseal is used for every application to take away any unnecessary permissions.
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#
# Steam is installed as a flatpak,
# as this seems to be the only method that does not force me
# to spend hours debugging various issues with the client.
#
# Installation instructions for steam:
#
# 1. Run flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam
# 2. Use Flatseal to revoke all filesystem permissions,
# development syscalls
# and bluetooth.
# 3. Add GDK_SCALE=2 as an environment variable (hack for sway’s Xwayland)
# 4. If you previously used steam-sandbox,
# you need to copy the files to the flatpak location.
# For this, start steam once (you can close it early),
# so it creates the new structure.
# Then, run the following commands:
# rm -rf ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam
# mv ~/.local/share/steam-sandbox/.local/share/Steam ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/
# You might want to copy additional files of games,
# that do not store files inside of Steam’s directories.
# Afterwards, you can delete ~/.local/share/steam-sandbox
#
# For MangoHud, the following steps are also necessary:
# 1. Run flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud
# 2. Add xdg-config/MangoHud:ro as filesystem mount to Steam in Flatseal
# 4. For Intel Arc systems,
# add /run/wrappers/bin/intel_gpu_top:ro as filiesystem mount
# and /run/wrappers/bin to the PATH environment variable in Flatseal
# 3. Add MANGOHUD=1 as a launch options to all games where MangoHud should be
# available
home: Use nixosConfig instead of inheriting options
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{ lib, nixosConfig, pkgs, ... }:
games: Conditionally add emulators This uses a crude arbitrary number to only install them onto machines that can actually run them.
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let
cfg = nixosConfig.sbruder.games;
inherit (nixosConfig.sbruder) unfree;
in
lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
hitagi: Switch to Intel Arc A770 Things are not very smooth yet. Hwmon only works with Kernel 6.2 and only supports energy monitoring (and even that doesn’t look too good). Fan control and temperature is not supported. To get at least usage statistics, intel_gpu_top can be used. Mangohud in its newest unreleased version also supports getting stats from it. However, intel_gpu_top needs cap_perfmon, which is a pain to get working inside the double bubblewrap sandbox for steam, therefore it is not yet available. On the positive side, OpenCL works well and oneAPI also works with blender-bin from nix-warez (nixpkgs doesn’t yet have blender with oneAPI support).
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home.packages = with pkgs; [
unstable.mangohud
] ++ lib.optionals (cfg.performanceIndex >= 2) [
games: Add mgba
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mgba
] ++ lib.optionals (cfg.performanceIndex >= 4) [
games: Conditionally add emulators This uses a crude arbitrary number to only install them onto machines that can actually run them.
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desmume
games: Use dolphin from unstable
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unstable.dolphin-emu-beta
games: add pcsx2
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pcsx2
games: Add ryujinx
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] ++ lib.optionals (cfg.performanceIndex >= 8) [
unstable.ryujinx
hitagi: Switch to Intel Arc A770 Things are not very smooth yet. Hwmon only works with Kernel 6.2 and only supports energy monitoring (and even that doesn’t look too good). Fan control and temperature is not supported. To get at least usage statistics, intel_gpu_top can be used. Mangohud in its newest unreleased version also supports getting stats from it. However, intel_gpu_top needs cap_perfmon, which is a pain to get working inside the double bubblewrap sandbox for steam, therefore it is not yet available. On the positive side, OpenCL works well and oneAPI also works with blender-bin from nix-warez (nixpkgs doesn’t yet have blender with oneAPI support).
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] ++ lib.optionals unfree.allowSoftware [
games: Add steam-sandbox
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unstable.osu-lazer-sandbox
];
home/games: Add module and option
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}