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Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 7 months ago (75 children)

I don't even want to hate on Snap, I just think Flatpak is probably superior in almost every way and it's probably not great that there are three competing formats for "applications with dependencies included". It was supposed to be "package your app to this format, dear developer, so everyone can use it no matter the distro they use", now it's a bit more complicated. Frustrating, as this means developers without that many resources will only offer some formats and whichever you (or your distro) prefers might not be available.

I know that you can get every format to work on every distro (AppImages are just single binaries you can execute), but each has their own first class citizen.

By the way, the unofficial Steam Flatpak has been working well for me under Fedora 39 KDE Spin, but an official one would be great to have.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Obligatory xkcd

[–] [email protected] 121 points 7 months ago (3 children)

obligatory reply to obligatory xkcd

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but Snap isn't an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

I know, I'm on the Flatpak side, just appreciate the intention behind snaps (although I quite frankly hate the execution).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Nice. I haven’t seen that one before!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Creating standards to trap users is not improving technology.

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