I installed it from the Software Manager tool in Mint.
There are 6 reviews for it. The top review has this comment which sounds similar to my experience:
4 weeks after DarkRacoon, and I have the same problem. Steam kind of launches, shows up like an invisble window, then closes again. I also need to kill the Steam process, uninstall through Software Manager and then re-install again. All games are still installed, so it’s just annoying to re-install Steam itself. And btw, yes I have ran the dpkg apt update mentioned in the Details section.
As I mentioned, I am new to Mint. I’ve used linux and unix before so I’m not totally lost, but the UI interface is a bit confusing for me, at least how it relates to the inner workings. So I guess you advocating that I figure out how to use flatpack. I assume it works sort of like Chocolatey on windows or Homebrew on Mac.
Re: don’t plug in a linux drive to window: This is a pretty new (all AMD) machine that had windows 11. I added a new drive and put linux on it and had a dual boot going. Just one time I tried to access the windows drive from linux to try to run a game I had installed there and it corrupted the windows drive. So yeah, I won’t try to connect them.