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

submitted 9 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] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The "Discover" app from KDE and the "Software" app from GNOME actually support backend plugins, but it's far from ideal. I had an issue where a Flatpak (Tor Launcher) showed up in Discover with an update available, but when trying to update it would fail silently and show up as an update again. Updating via CLI revealed that the package was deprecated in favor of another one and it asked whether I wanted to replace it.

Even if it'd work great, it wouldn't really solve the issue that developers have to try and package their app in many different formats because not all distributions support all formats (out of the box). There isn't a clear "release in this format" for developers. And as I said, unofficial packages aren't ideal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Refer to the xkcd. There's never going to be a single universal standard to unite them all and in light bind them. The best you're going to get is improved support and integration.