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

submitted 10 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nah, it's repeating the installation process until you finally get enough stuff working to have internet, and then you can bootstrap installing every other bit of software that you need. Thank goodness for rolling release - I can't imagine having to go through that again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can install Arch directly from a UEFI shell over the Internet: https://archlinux.org/releng/netboot/
If your BIOS has a UEFI shell that supports DHCP, HTTP and IPv4 PXE you can load the ipxe-arch.efi over HTTP and start installing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Does UEFI shell have wget?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The important question is if the UEFI shell can run Doom.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Of course it can. What did you expect?

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_UEFI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Depends on the version. All of them (the newer ones with networking) have TFTP. Some even have HTTPS. I think HP Servers even have HTTPS-Boot with client TLS certificates.
None of it works with Wifi though. iPXE has wifi support for some devices but you obviously can't start it over the Internet. You need to flash a ROM you don't need or use a USB drive to load it. Then you can boot Linux from the Internet. (That also works if you don't have a UEFI Shell in BIOS). https://netboot.xyz can also boot other OSes than Arch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I haven't done a vanilla arch install for years either, because if that sort of thing is fun for some folks great, but it was only fun once or twice for me. I think a lot of the vanilla arch faithful end up scripting it for fresh installs.

But, FWIW there's always endeavouros, manjaro, and I'm sure other Arch derivatives I've forgotten about. I just did an endeavouros install on new hardware I was given last weekend, and it's certainly no harder to install than Ubuntu.