Why does the faucet look like a telephone lol

That's good to hear, thanks!

Well that's that then. I also have no idea what to try anymore... I guess you'll just have to wait until some random update fixes the issue. Sorry.

Edit: Since you reinstalled everything, I think it could be some cache on your system that went bad. That would explain why both the Flatpak and native versions don't work and why the rest of your system works. But I have no idea where that cache might be...

Okay... Now that you have the non flatpak steam, could you remove flatpak and xdg-desktop-portal*?

Reboot and launch steam again.

This is the last idea I have for now... If this also doesn't help, it is probably a different issue than this and this, and you should report it to valve.

All this is seriously so weird...

Okay, so the runtimes were fine, good to know. Btw, you can remove runtimes without first removing the apps that depend on them. They just won't work any more until you install it again.

I wonder if there is a clean way to thoroughly remove all and everything coming from Flatpak. At this point I don’t even care if there is any data lost …

Not an official one, but this should do the trick if you really want to delete everything. If you want to, you could back up the user files for your other Flatpaks first.

1.flatpak uninstall --all --delete-data

2.Remove flatpak with your package manager

3.sudo rm -rf /var/lib/flatpak /var/cache/flatpak ~/.local/share/flatpak ~/.cache/flatpak ~/.local/share/flatpak ~/.cache/flatpak /etc/flatpak

4.Reboot

5.Install flatpak again

6.Add flathub

7.Install steam

If that also doesn't work, I'm 95% certain it has to be one of your system packages. Weird that a system package would break any Flatpaks though... What distro are you using anyway?

I'm starting to think that your flatpak runtimes might be corrupted.

You can try reinstalling the one used by steam. Uninstall with

flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/22.08

And then install it again with

flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/22.08

To eliminate any other potential issues I'd recommend deleting the steam user folder as well before launching it again. Like I told you earlier.

Edit: It's hilarious, I find many people having the exact same issue but never with the Flatpak version. Some even use the Flatpak version as a workaround. Very weird.

Funny, I remember getting the exact same comment on Reddit when it was still there. While this is obviously correct, to me, it just feels wrong to use Discord in a browser. Also, other clients offer functionality that not even Discord in a browser supports. But for those who don't mind or don't need those extra features, it's a great solution, no doubt.

You help where you can

I did. I know the guy.

What? You mean I'm Err404UNameNotFound? I'm not.

Very true. There are obviously some community projects, but no doubt, official software would be better. Or even better, if they would make it easy for the community to develop those tools.

Tell me if I'm wrong, but to me, it very much seemed like passive-aggressive irony. Like "Thanks for telling us this absolutely pointless fact that nobody wants to hear because it's stupid". Plus, I guess I also mean the other people who disliked my comment for seemingly no other reason but me deciding to not use something. Why does it concern them?