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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Fedora 32 : Play games with Steam service.

Steam is a video game digital distribution service by Valve. It was launched as a standalone software client in September 2003 as a way for Valve to provide automatic updates for their games, and expanded to include games from third-party publishers., see Wikipedia.
Is very easy to install and play a game with Fedora 32 Linux distro, just follow these commands:
[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo dnf update --refresh
[sudo] password for mythcat: 
Fedora 32 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.1 kB/s | 986  B     00:00    
Fedora Modular 32 - x86_64                       39 kB/s |  22 kB     00:00    
Fedora Modular 32 - x86_64 - Updates             26 kB/s |  22 kB     00:00    
Fedora 32 - x86_64 - Updates                     10 kB/s | 9.8 kB     00:00    
Fedora 32 - x86_64                               20 kB/s |  23 kB     00:01    
google-chrome                                   7.6 kB/s | 1.3 kB     00:00    
MEGAsync                                        4.7 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
MongoDB Repository                              4.4 kB/s | 2.5 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 32 - Free - Updates        21 kB/s | 9.1 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 32 - Free                  25 kB/s |  10 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 32 - Nonfree - Updates     20 kB/s | 9.3 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 32 - Nonfree               18 kB/s |  10 kB     00:00    
Visual Studio Code                              6.6 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[mythcat@desk ~]$ sudo dnf install steam -y
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:09 ago on Sun 02 Aug 2020 04:59:49 PM EEST.
Package steam-1.0.0.64-1.fc32.i686 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[mythcat@desk ~]$ steam 
Running Steam on fedora 32 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins potentially out-of-date, rebuilding...
...
Now you can pick a game from store steam and play it.