I think it may be because I had installed the steam flatpak beforehand I did doa full delete of it but maybe something in this file didn't get cleared?
I'm definitely not the most experienced Linux user yet so I don't even really know what I would be looking for that would be suspicious or not correct in that file
I definitely did because I was super hesitant about it too but yes I will probably just direct most of my questions here and other forums in the future.