Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve - OMG! Ubuntu
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Canonical may be ramping up its efforts to improve the Ubuntu gaming experience — yasss — but it seems their Steam snap package is causing a few headaches

Timothée Besset, a software engineer who works on the Steam client for Valve, took to Mastodon this week to reveal: “Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical’s repackaging of the Steam client through snap”.

“We are not involved with the snap repackaging. It has a lot of issues”, Besset adds, noting that “the best way to install Steam on Debian and derivative operating systems is to […] use the official .deb”.

Those who don’t want to use the official Deb package are instead asked to ‘consider the Flatpak version’ — though like Canonical’s Steam snap the Steam Flatpak is also unofficial, and no directly supported by Valve.

  • @maness300
    111•8 months ago

    That’s the problem with doing everything yourself.

    You also have to maintain everything, yourself.

    Fuck snaps 🖕

    • @Snapz
      70•8 months ago

      Yeah. Hey wait? Fuck you!

      • @DudEnglish
        33•8 months ago

        I’m sorry but Linux Council has already decided your fate.

        • @[email protected]
          2•8 months ago

          I thought it was the GNU wizards circle that decides these things.

          Are you telling me I have been going to the wrong meetings?!

          I swear this Linux fragmentation will be the death of it.

          • I Cast Fist
            3•8 months ago

            Oh yeah? Then I’ll make my own Linux Council! With blackjack and hookers!