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

I didn't ignore anything.

And you don't need to be so defensive. Nobody said Debian is bad or that you can't use it to make money, just that it being severely outdated can be an issue, and it can. Flatpak helps, but it doesn't completely fix it.

My comment wasn't meant to hurt your feelings.

[–] superbirra -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lol I'm not defensive at all hahahaha rest assured my opinions aren't changed by such a stupid zealot conversation, also this fact you don't entirely read comments you're replying about contibute to the lulz. Don't react too bad to the money thing, one day or another you could also start working in this industry but if I could choose I'd go w/ dog training (I'm speaking for me, I'd really go that way). Cheers my friend

[–] TheGrandNagus 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I dunno, it sounds awfully defensive to me. It wasn't meant to hurt you, it's just a discussion about software packaging. There's no personal attacks here.

I did read your comments, and despite trying to change the topic, create strawmen, and shout ad-hominems, it doesn't change the fact that it's reasonable to say Debian packages are often very, very old and outdated. Because they are.

That may not be an issue for you, but it is for many.

You shouldn't let that make you upset, it doesn't invalidate your use-case.

[–] superbirra -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

hahaha I swear to you that seeing you strain so hard to push your fallacies who knows where makes me laugh. Believe it or not, there remains a world of people out there laughing at those who use this garbage, and your social media woes will not, as usual, shift half an ounce of reality :) believe it or not, lemmy is not reality, outside those servers there is a real world :) but please, feel welcomed to keep supporting I don't know what theory, you're welcome, at least at this party :PP

[–] TheGrandNagus 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now you're just talking absolute gobbledegook.

[–] superbirra 1 points 11 months ago

I don't know man, the important thing is that you stay calm while I continue to mind my own business. Say hello to the computer vegans from me, and ofc stay hydrated :P and please, PLEASE, do not mumble 3h again your next response sweetie <3