I recently got fed up with Windows and decided to go with Linux on my main computer for the first time in over a decade. I have been using Solus on my old chromebook for a year or so, and that is what I went with on my desktop. Everything just worked on my desktop as it had on my chromebook. I installed steam and it worked fine. That is until this morning, the window for a steam update popped up and I clicked "restart steam." Steam restarted and I was presented with "Failed to load steamui.so."
I had run into a similar problem many years ago and it was a huge hassle to get it fixed. I started googling the error and I was not feeling better. Then I added solus to the search and found this reddit post. I hadn't opened the Linux Steam Integration program before because Steam had just worked, but I turned off native runtime as suggested. Steam started up normally loaded the new update and was working as before.
P.S. How awesome is proton? The last time I had Linux as my main OS I had to run two versions of steam, the native linux one and the windows one through cedega. I may never go back to windows again on my personal computer.
