Linux

48655 readers

351 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

742

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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

253 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] thecookingsenpai 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tbh i never found an app that runs better on snap than on deb

Same goes for almost anything like snap

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] thecookingsenpai 1 points 11 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