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.

  • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
    772·
    10 months ago

    Who the fuck was asking for a Steam Snap.

    JFC

    Give up on snaps. It’s not gonna happen. Whatever benefits they claim they could provide could be merged into Flatpak and everyone wins.

    • OsrsNeedsF2P
      331·
      10 months ago

      It’s Canonical. They’ll perfect snaps in 8 years, then give it up

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Already gave up. Switched to Debian and it’s been great. I loved Ubuntu, but fuck snap all the bullshit that comes with it.

    • xe3@lemmy.world
      43·
      10 months ago

      Flatpak is not designed to solve all the same problems as snap they have very different scopes and goals. It’s really only Linux hobbyists that see these as comparable technologies.

      Also the Steam flatpak is unofficial just like the snap, they would be unwilling to support flatpak issues as well.

    • AMDIsOurLord
      22·
      10 months ago

      Counterpoint: Snaps work fine for me, really convenient. But flatpak always shits the bed on my internet, it also needs huge Nvidia driver packages of it’s own if you have an Nvidia GPU (my laptop has one)

      Snap on the other hand is very much fire and forget