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On Linux Mint 20.3 Steam won't launch but there is no error. After uninstalled, purged and reinstalled Steam it launches correctly but only until next reboot. Reinstall after every boot is not a fine workaround :)

Notice that I also have Lutris installed and it now provides his own version of Steam, can be there a conflict ?

Some bunch of useful informations :

uname -a
Linux julien-Nitro-5 5.4.0-122-generic #138-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 22 15:00:31 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

prime-select query
nvidia

nvidia-smi
Tue Jul 19 20:35:12 2022       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.48.07    Driver Version: 515.48.07    CUDA Version: 11.7     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce ...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   40C    P8    10W /  N/A |    232MiB /  6144MiB |      7%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       876      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                113MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      1331      G   cinnamon                           43MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2324      G   ...357144633483984322,131072       71MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

steam
steam.sh[3982]: Running Steam on linuxmint 20.3 64-bit
steam.sh[3982]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[4133]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[3982]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
TikTaZ
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You probably miss some graphic-driver releated packages, try to install:

libnvidia-gl-515

If it does not resolve your problem respond to me in comments.

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  • I was miss it but it didn't help even after a reboot – TikTaZ Aug 03 '22 at 19:32
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I had this exact same problem with the Linux Mint 21.1 on my notebook. In my case, the problem started after I changed the GPU mode to on-demand (I have a Nvidia dGPU) with sudo prime-select on-demand. Even when I reinstalled Steam, after reboot, Steam still wouldn't start. However, if I switched back to intel or nvidia, Steam started normally.

In the on-demand context, I'm doing the same workaround as you, starting Steam through the terminal or through Lutris (in this case, it uses my default Steam installation), after kill it in the process list. I also pass the RENDER_OFFLOAD and the VENDOR_LIBRARY environment variables in cli.

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia steam

As you mentioned, the app also doesn't open through Cinammon for some reason. Even after exporting the environment variables in the Steam startup script: sudo xed $(command -v steam)

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