Simon McVittie

> `libaudio.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory` `libaudio.so.2` has never been part of the API/ABI that Steam guarantees to make available. It's a client library...

Possible solutions: One way that the app vendor could solve this would be to bundle their own copy of `libaudio.so.2` as part of the app's depot, and take responsibility for...

Workarounds: As you've seen, copying `libaudio.so.2` (and the library that it points to) into the app's directory, next to its copy of Qt, is an entirely reasonable workaround. Or, at...

Please report this to the app vendor, and point to the comments above for more information. It's considered to be an app bug for it to ship a native Linux...

> A future version of Steam might provide a way to switch between the Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 container environment and the legacy `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`-based runtime on a per-title basis. This...

The minimal example is sensitive to implementation details of your host OS, and is not guaranteed to work everywhere. Unfortunately, if we wrote an example that would work on every...

> why is the error so cryptic about it? The only information that the kernel gives us is an error code, `ENOENT`. It doesn't give us any information about *what*...

@kisak-valve, please could you retitle this to "Proton fails to locate steam process when home directory is in /usr" to set the scope of this issue report? > my home...

pressure-vessel already does fall back to copying if hard-linking fails (although not if it succeeds but is merely slow). We can't really win here: none of the options for what...

> wouldn't it be better to make APPID specific runtime directories like Proton does for wine prefixes? One could instead have the "expensive" copy operation just once and then work...