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Running Steam on NixOS Apple Silicon

This guide details how to run Steam on nixos-apple-silicon using Distrobox.

Tested on:

1. MacBook Pro M2 Max
2. NixOS channel 25.11 (unstable channel, at the time of writing)
3. OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.2.4
4. Wayland / Sway / SDDM
5. Kernel: 6.16.8-asahi

juselius

{ pkgs, kernel ? pkgs.linux, ... } :
with pkgs;
let
  version = "7.4.0";
in stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation {
  pname = "beegfs";
  inherit version;

  src = fetchurl {
    name = "beegfs-archive-${version}.tar.bz2";