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2026-06-27 09:53 UTC

If you’re worried about Steam, you can always use the flatpak version of Steam. It runs it in a sandbox, so it doesn’t have complete access to all your files, although it can still do a bit of telemetry (which is unavoidable really, as you need to download files from Steam’s servers).

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@nootux@lemmy.ml 2026-06-28 05:03

Thank you for the advice. Until I learn more about exactly what sort of telemetry steam uses I will be avoiding it. Differences between installation methods is definitely something I need to learn more about. For example fsearch I have installed as a flatpak but it does not know what to launch found files with and I have to select what to launch with each time. This is due to flatpak not being able to see what software I have installed I think. This tells me that the default steam installation could, which I am not keen on. Who knows what else because I am not that knowledgable on it yet. I think GOG may be a better option for now, also everything is DRM free. But I have not used them before so again, another thing to research.

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