Flatpak Steam shows wrong System Info on SteamOS
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Preinstalled Steam shows this:
Operating System Version:
"SteamOS Holo" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.15.11-valve1-1-neptune-615-gf96afaca3ab2
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12101018
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_1.0.20250616.139563
It's specifically showing "SteamOS Holo" which is correct.
Flatpak Steam shows this:
Operating System Version:
Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.15.11-valve1-1-neptune-615-gf96afaca3ab2
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12101018
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_1.0.20250616.139563
It's technically showing correct, but I think Steam can be made smarter. You guys can look at the Kernel Version and clearly see it's SteamOS. So you should rather show "SteamOS Holo" instead of "Freedesktop SDK 24.08 (Flatpak runtime) (64 bit)"
flatpak steam is not maintained by valve, the link to their repo is https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam
Note: This is a community package of Steam gaming plaform not officially supported by Valve. Report bugs through linked issue tracker.
from the flathub store
flatpack steam is not maintained by valve, the link to their repo is https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam
Note: This is a community package of Steam gaming plaform not officially supported by Valve. Report bugs through linked issue tracker.
from the flathub store
It doesn't matter. The check will be within Steam itself.
The "System Information" is a page you can find by going to Help and then System Information:
The System Information is also what is used for the Steam Hardware Survey.
The OS itself when running inside flatpak is the freededktop sdk. This is working as expected.