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Installing steam through flatpak seems like a terrible idea to me.
Then why is it a flatpak?
And it was a terrible idea, but on atomic distros it's that or adding it to the os tree.
Fedora is not an atomic distribution. I use fedora and I have Steam, it works.
I don't know, I imagine there is some use case. The fact that a flatpak for a software exists does not mean that flatpak is the best installation option.
Fedora atomic is atomic though