Steam won't launch after full system update

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Hey, I simply switched from 1050ti to 3060ti and made full update with help of garuda-update remote fix and garuda rani. Everything seems to work besides steam which shows up on the system monitor, but there’s no windows popping up. I tried using sudo pacman -S linux-headers, as somewhere suggested but it did nothing. I tried reinstalling steam, even tried lsi version, but nope. Current system and specs:

 OS Garuda Linux x86_64
├ Kernel Linux 6.18.3-zen1-1-zen
├󰏖 Packages 1664 (pacman)[stable], 5 (flatpak-user)
├ Shell fish 4.3.3
└ Age 114 days

 DE KDE Plasma 6.5.4
├󰧨 Window Manager KWin (Wayland)
├󰧨 Login Manager sddm 0.21.0 (Wayland)
├󰉼 WM Theme Bryza
├󰉼 Color Themes Breeze (Dark) [Qt]
├󰀻 System Icons breeze-dark [Qt]
├ System Fonts Inter (10pt) [Qt]
└ Terminal konsole 25.12.1

󰌢 PC Desktop
├󰻠 CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600G (12) @ 3.90 GHz
├󰍛 GPU AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series [Integrated]
├󰍛 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate [Discrete]
├󰍛 OpenGL 4.6.0 NVIDIA 590.48.01
├󰍛 Vulkan 1.4.328 - NVIDIA [590.48.01]radv [Mesa 25.3.3-arch1.1]
└󰍹 Display(s) 1920x1080 in 24", 180 Hz [External]

Here’s also only error that popped up when I was testing steamlsi (I managed to find most on octopi, but couldn’t find “libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0”):

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So basically I managed to find that flatpack version works and installed it through a bunch of commands. Though if there are issues with runtime version, then why not give option to install from flatpack through garuda rani? Especially that I remember steam native being an option a while ago

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Flatpacks are not officially support AFAIK.

Garuda has ChaoticAUR all packages are build for the system. When you want flatpacks you are on your own

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This is gtk2 stuff for X11. Do you use X11 ? Gtk2 is outdated and only if you really need this you should it install over terminal:
paru -S gtk2

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Well, I spent a lot of time and it seems that steam runtime just doesn’t want to work. I pretty much spent whole day trying to make it work and it just doesn’t. Before update I were just using steam native that was available for some time within garuda rani and for some reason the system decided to replace it with runtime during update. I might aswell try using

garuda-update remote os-reset

But I doubt it’ll do much

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Steam native was retracted from Arch. Recommendation is now to use runtime.

Steam does not launch after migrating from native (even after complete re-install)
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Without logs it is impossible to tell why your steam may not be starting. Run steam in a terminal and post the FULL logs here or on privatebin and then share the link.

This is not standard procedure. Why was this done?

Your post is also missing the Garuda inxi output. Please post the extended debug output you get from running garuda-diag.

It almost certainly will.

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So basically update would just send error that it can’t delete old drivers, the nvidia 580 something so I scrolled through posts and found something similar. Tried using garuda-update remote os-reset, but guess what, it just kept showing black window (no interface visible, no progress on the terminal). Honestly, before you even replied I just found old bootstick, backed up important files onto external drive and made full reinstall, cause it took less time with my lack of knowledge. For now everything seems to work, so yeah