Steam's beta client cannot see your games under /var because it now runs in a container

A Steam library kept under /var disappears from the Linux beta client, with installed games showing an Install button instead of Play and the client's log labeling mounted drives as "not mounted". Simon McVittie, a Steam Runtime developer at Collabora and not at Valve, explained on Valve's tracker that the beta client now runs in a container.

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