I can't remember if it was you who posted the image, but using rpm-ostree install adds layers(?) on the image. If you haven't done that, then I think it's irrelevant.
Bazzite installed lutris alongside Steam on first setup, but it in a flatpak. Do people recommend using it for epic games? I am wondering if my this set up would be made better by putting heroic launcher or another copy of Lutrus in the arch distrobox steam is in by default.
oh the arch distrobox container method is actually discontinued on bazzite. it's still maintained and intended for other setups outside of bazzite, like another linux distro, but yeah... Steam and Lutris are now layered onto the image as native RPM applications. Heroic works well as a Flatpak though
Oh, I didn’t realize! So, if I remove my whole Steam install, get rid of the distro box, and run the bazzite setup again, will I have it installed natively?
the native packages should already be there and you can safely remove the bazzite-arch container (assuming you have not installed anything yourself inside it)
unless you installed it as a flatpak (can double check in Discover (KDE) or GNOME Software (GNOME) and see if you can install it in either of the Flathub remotes)
Seemingly I swapped from using a distro box version to a non-distro box version without noticing. I confirmed by looking through my trash, and finding two different desktop shortcuts I had deleted, the older one linked to nonexistent distrobox image, and the newer one linked to my existing install.