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VacuumStream 0.1.0

The first public release of VacuumStream, a controller-first Twitch client for Linux x86_64.

Highlights

  • Navigate with four arrow keys, Enter, and Escape, or a gamepad/Steam Input mapping.
  • Guest Quick watch and exact-channel search; connect Twitch for personalized discovery.
  • A public Twitch Client ID is included, with an optional Settings override.
  • Official Twitch live/VOD player with separate play/pause, mute, and fullscreen controls.
  • Responsive handheld-to-4K interface and secure-keyring token storage when available.
  • AppImage and Flatpak packages using Electron 44.2.0; Flatpak uses Freedesktop 25.08.
  • New user, contributor, and maintainer documentation, including a homepage screenshot.

Install

Download the AppImage or Flatpak attached below, plus SHA256SUMS.
The assets are attached automatically after the release build completes.

sha256sum --check --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS

For AppImage:

chmod +x VacuumStream-0.1.0-x86_64.AppImage
./VacuumStream-0.1.0-x86_64.AppImage

For Flatpak (1.16 or newer):

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install --user ./VacuumStream-0.1.0-x86_64.flatpak
flatpak run io.github.eliottness.VacuumStream

See the user guide
for FUSE alternatives, controller setup, and Steam Gaming Mode.

Validation and limitations

  • CI passed on Node 24.20.0 and 26.8.1, including 28 tests, lint, typecheck, and packaging.
  • Locally built AppImage and Flatpak passed Home, Settings, Search, and Escape navigation smoke tests.
  • This is early-stage software. Physical Steam Deck/Bazzite, native GPU/audio, and fully authenticated
    Twitch playback have not been comprehensively validated. Flatpak runtime smoke testing used an
    isolated non-root Linux container with a virtual display.
  • Twitch controls ads and availability. Device sign-in authenticates discovery, not the embedded player.
  • Without a secure keyring, sign-in lasts only for the current application session.
  • Checksums detect corruption but are not publisher signatures. This is not a Flathub release.
  • Contributor build note: electron-vite 5's declared peer range does not yet include Vite 8, although
    the current pairing passes the test/build matrix without overrides.

Report reproducible problems through the issue templates.

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