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.

  • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Would be cool if they just straight up supported flatpaks. That’s been my main way of gaming for a couple years now, and it works great. The downside is that the folder structure is confusing so it makes things like modding pretty difficult.

      • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        or, you know, you could use a much better and consistent platform

          • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Debian is one of the distros where flatpaks are most appropriate lol, it’s the best way to not have programs that are really old

            Adding weird third party repositories that can cause all kinds of issues probably isn’t the best idea

            • superbirra@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              tbf, flatpaks are problematic shit noobs tend to appreciate because reasons. That said, beside the fact steam ships its own chroot, I’m a happy sid user and I don’t even have this imaginary problem of things being ‘very old’ sooo … but I can confirm you shouldn’t add weird third party repos or shitty flatpaks :)

              • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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                1 year ago

                It’s not just noobs that appreciate flatpak. Flatpak is good all-round.

                And the problem of Debian packages being old is very much not imaginary lol. Debian has only just moved beyond Gnome 3.38/Plasma 5.20/kernel version 5.10.

                That’s ancient. And that’s not to mention the other software repos, which are often updated at an even slower pace.

                Don’t assume that just because you want extremely outdated packages, everyone else must want the same.

                • superbirra@lemmy.world
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                  1 year ago

                  you normally skip reading half of the comments you reply to, eh? :) ciao ciao from my debian system which does everything, including paying my rent and a bit more, w/o this shit ;)