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Counter-Strike 2? The 2023 game? Are you sure it requires 32 bit?
I'm not sure really. I haven't installed it yet. I'm stuck with the set-up of Steam (I guess it is a prerequisite), and was really annoyed when it required setting up i386 support in order to run (Debian 12 here). Would be grateful of any advice on how to proceed.
Have you tried the flatpak version? That should be nicely isolated from the rest of your system.
Sounds like you’re new to Linux and having Debian teething issues. Debian, for all of its standout qualities, is not a distribution I’d consider beginner friendly. An option like Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian) is going to be way easier out of the box and requires basically zero configuration aside from setting up Nvidia drivers if you have an Nvidia GPU?
Why did you need i386 support? What are your hardware specs? i386 support is being phased out, and while Debian will likely be one of the last holdouts for support it likely won’t support it for much longer.
I meant something different, and Debian isn't the issue to me here (yes it may not be the most user-friendly distro out there, but that has advantages on its own).
What I don't like here is the approach taken by Steam. In order to ensure the widest possible compatibility with the products being offered, it fiddles with the end-user set-up installing what not (software repos, i386 supbort etc). For my own reasons I'm not allowing that to happen. The same goes for Wine, or any other software/config I am unaware what it does to my system, or has not been explicitly stated as a requirement beforehand.
In this aspect, the approach by Google Play (and F-Droid as well) seems to be better - it scans the target system set-up and offers only the apps suitable to that platform. Etc.
“Sounds like you’re new to Linux and having Debian teething issues”
Steam doesn’t set up any additional software repos. It installs proton within its own framework and that’s about it. I think you think you know more than you actually know.
I guess you’ll just have to make your own game and play it by yourself bud.