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.

  • @Auzy@beehaw.org
    -12•5 months ago

    Just to play devils advocate, why don’t they simply officially support the Snap store?

    • @skilltheamps@feddit.de
      29•5 months ago

      Because it’s the same story as with Mir or Upstart: it will die, because its half assed and tailored to Ubuntu, this time with dubious non-free parts even

      • haui
        23•5 months ago

        The proprietary parts is what bothers me. Why would you make a foss OS/fork and put proprietary shit in? Its like taking something good and pure and instead of making it better or just different, make it worse.

    • @cadekat
      6•5 months ago

      Snaps just aren’t ready yet.