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’
Ha. Flatpak got the honorable mention.
The big selling point of snap was getting packages directly from the developer instead of through maintainers. It’s strange that it’s using the maintainer model without Valve’s support
Snap is crap. It has been from the start, and it’s only getting worse since then. It basically goes against anything thousands of developers worked for for decades: to save resources by making them shared and reusable.
Drives are huge and computers are so powerful now that it doesn’t matter. It used to, but not any more. This philosophy also breaks things when two programs need conflicting versions of a library. Happens all the time.
I had to drop the snap after a few months of it being OK enough but the Flatpak works great so all is well
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This is why I still run out and grab the deb. Might not be the fanciest, or the “Linux way” but I just want my stuff to work.
Installing a software package through a distro’s package manager sounds like a perfectly fine “Linux way” to me.
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