Well, since we're talking about it... Given the popularity of Steam, it's a high-visibility, high-priority application, which means your distro may be running

Well, since we're talking about it... Given the popularity of Steam, it's a high-visibility, high-priority application, which means your distro may be running it in one of three ways: 1) A snap 2) A flatpak 3) Your distro's native packaging format (deb/rpm, etc.) So yeah, there might be a bit of variation there. I've already had a handful of problems on the Steam Flatpak on Fedora in which it's been suggested that I should switch to the RPMFusion Steam rpm instead, but so far I have resisted. The fact that Steam is a program that installs other programs means that it will frequently test the boundaries of the OS and package format's security models.