Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve - OMG! Ubuntu
www.omgubuntu.co.uk
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.

  • evranch
    1·
    8 months ago

    Docker works very well and it’s a lot “like snap”

    However it exists to be used in cases where you want a sandbox/abstraction layer on purpose.

    Unfortunately some applications are starting to be distributed as docker containers that never should have been, resulting in an snap-like situation developing there as well.

    • The Cooking Senpai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      Right, Docker is an exception (usually). The same trend anyway is becoming common in all “snap like” solutions, namely AppImage. I have to admit, tho, that I have a couple of AppImages that did not install in .deb form