linux-steam-integration

Linux Steam* Integration is a helper system to make the Steam Client and Steam games run better on Linux. In a nutshell, LSI automatically applies various workarounds to get games working, and fixes long standing bugs in both games and the client.

In many cases this will involve controlling which libraries are allowed to be used at any given time, and these libraries may be overriden for any of the following reasons:

Security
Compatibility
Performance

Additionally we apply dynamic workarounds to fix some filesystem path related bugs in Linux ports (or even shader workarounds for ARK*) through our redirect module.

With LSI, you don't need to worry any more about manually mangling your Steam installation just to make the open source drivers work, or manually creating links and installing unsupported libraries. LSI is designed to take care of all of this for you.

Note that LSI will not modify your Steam installation, and instead makes use of two modules, liblsi-redirect.so and liblsi-intercept.so, to dynamically apply all of the workarounds at runtime, which in turn is set up by the main LSI shim binary.

For a more in depth view of what LSI is, and how to integrate it into your distribution, please check the technical README document.

Do note that we intend to remove the need for distributions to integrate LSI in the near future, by providing the LSI system as a snap package for all supported distributions.

This project, and by extension Solus, is not officially endorsed by, or affiliated with, Steam, or its parent company, Valve*.

Linux Steam Integration is a Solus project

Snap Support

LSI is currently undergoing work to become a universal package for all Linux distributions!

Items left to implement:

Add basic library support for snapd environment
Make shim support $SNAP style environmental variables for local Steam
Add support to LSI + snapd for NVIDIA+Vulkan
Verify "normal" games work again
Publish snaps

Getting LSI

LSI may not yet be available for your distribution, however some community maintained repositories do exist.

Arch Linux
Fedora
Solus uses LSI by default, just install the steam package.

License

linux-steam-integration is available under the terms of the LGPL-2.1 license.

See the accompanying LICENSE.LGPL2.1 file for more details

data/lsi-steam.desktop:

    This file borrows translations from the official `steam.desktop` launcher.
    These are copyright of Valve*.

* Some names may be claimed as the property of others.