Canonical announced some time ago their Steam Snap which was promoted as stable with Ubuntu 23.04, as they continue to push their own packaging format with Snap but it seems this has been causing problems for Valve.
Why they don’t take over the work and make it official with support is beyond me though.
The flatpak version hammers my DNS-server when downloading it isn’t funny anymore, 100s requests a minute for the same domains, it ignores the TTL too.
I think they also use the flatpak version on Steamdeck? Really weird.
flatpak - a way to package applications so they have everything they need regardless of the Linux OS you choose (like how Electron packages a web app, e.g. Slack or Discord)
mesa - the graphics layer on Linux; this connects the OS to your drivers
Debian stable - a really stable version of Linux with old software; think Debian Stable = Windows 10/7, and most other distros are like Windows 11; some apps don’t work on Debian because it’s so old, hence flatpak
With the flatpak it barely even matters which distro you use. Flatpak steam & mesa and go play some games. I game on Debian stable now.
I been moving my systems to Debian stable, thanks to flatpak and backports.
Why they don’t take over the work and make it official with support is beyond me though.
The flatpak version hammers my DNS-server when downloading it isn’t funny anymore, 100s requests a minute for the same domains, it ignores the TTL too.
I think they also use the flatpak version on Steamdeck? Really weird.
I’ve never read so many words I know and been so confused by how they were used before in my life
Edit: oh this is a Linux gaming thing, didn’t see where I was. I thought I had all the Linux communities filtered. Oh well ignore this
In case you are curious:
Anyway, I hope you have a fantastic day. :)