Post #3860042
2026-07-16 13:56 UTC
@techokami@woof.tech @kirby@freerobuxextremist.com you can run steam on freebsd with plasma6 wayland, using only tools that you can install directly from the package manager, without having to build anything from source. doing it properly does mean writing and running a script to launch it, but you can cut corners and not do that.
and you can run steam games this way using native (not emulated-linux) wine/proton, with proprietary nvidia drivers officially released by nvidia, on a dual-graphics laptop from this side of the decade boundary. the open source graphics drivers are derived from linux. getting graphics drivers set up is not trivial, but once you're done it generally does just work, and it is all in the package manager.
you can use fusefs-lkl to load linux btrfs as a fuse library and mount your btrfs filesystems, but i'd recommend if possible using zfs for things shared between linux and freebsd instead. can't speak on ntfs.
see this thread from a while back with some screenshots of me running steam
RE: https://nya.social/notes/819af22734a0975283376d99
Replies (1)
-
@linear@nya.social 2026-07-16 13:57
@techokami@woof.tech @kirby@freerobuxextremist.com also, the freebsd handbook is better than any linux wiki that has ever existed