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.
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).
The full sysfs is required for steam to discover controllers. Despite
some individual games detecting them, for full controller support
(especially in wine/proton), steam has to detect them.
Currently the build fails with (multiple instances of) error NU3037:
Package '…' from source '/build/source/nixos': The author primary
signature validity period has expired.
Simon Bruder