Running steam inside docker...

... has quite a lot of advantages:

• Support as good as Ubuntu (since image is based on that).
• Since steam is proprietary, running it outside of your regular filesystem is a huge benefit for security.
• It's reproducible and any error that occurs can be worked around for everyone in this simple image.
• On NixOS, Steam makes a nested filesystem. Using Docker shouldn't have any disadvantages.

Usage

This Dockerfile is not usable at all unless you're using the absolutely great x11docker. It's straight up scary good at what it does, and is the core how this works. Really, all the credits go to @mviereck, he's awesome. Too awesome.

All the building and running with recommended x11docker settings are ran by run.sh. So it's recommended to put x11docker in your path and run

./run.sh

. You can also choose to not put x11docker in your path, and instead call

./run.sh path/to/x11docker

Note

This docker file uses the latest steam installer and may therefore stop working on it's own. Don't panic, just give me a ping and I'll see what I can do. Or better yet, send a PR!