Conty

Another solution is Conty[0] which is a download-and-run containerised Steam based on Arch; I use it to run games on Slackware without multilibs, and it's worked flawlessly so far. However, it seems Arch are also dropping multilibs as a dependency of Wine, and moving to WoW64[1], with "reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly". What this implies for Steam on Arch (and hence for Conty) I'm not sure, though as of May some Proton versions have a PROTON_USE_WOW64 env var according to [2], so maybe multilibs can already be avoided running Steam natively anyhow. 0: https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty 1: https://archlinux.org/news/transition-to-the-new-wow64-wine-... 2: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6889 (comment from artemyto on May 3)

I admit I'm an edge case, but last year I installed Slackware on my main desktop specifically to escape the clutches of systemd, and by god it feels great to have a working /etc/rc.d again! I do use containerised solutions for a few things (e.g. conty[0] for Steam, and a couple of rocm containers for messing with ML things). KDE is the default desktop and does everything I need. I haven't used gnome for a decade anyhow. 0: https://github.com/Kron4ek/Conty/