Oddly enough I can confirm, if I download from the website I can launch without issues (didn't test in game) however if I try and launch from steam I get the SDL error

So, I might be captured by this bug as well? I honestly don't know. I have not tried to place since the 2.0 update and attempting to launch on arch either steam native libraries or runtime libraries just instantly crashes. No relevant ~/.factorio/factorio-current.log (one is there but its from a few...