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

submitted 11 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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[–] Snapz 70 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Hey wait? Fuck you!

[–] Dud 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm sorry but Linux Council has already decided your fate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I thought it was the GNU wizards circle that decides these things.

Are you telling me I have been going to the wrong meetings?!

I swear this Linux fragmentation will be the death of it.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am the Linux Council!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah? Then I'll make my own Linux Council! With blackjack and hookers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Are you threatening me master jedi?