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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

Well, I'd prefer Canonical to fix their shit, instead of forcing immature products onto users. I'm not against snap per se, as there are valid reasons for sandboxing, especially for games (remember when Steam accidentally wiped some user's home folders back in 2015? Sandboxing would have prevented that).

However, in its current state, snap causes just too much friction. For example Firefox can't remember the last used directory for up/downloads, Steam snap will just create a new data directory (forgetting about the games already downloaded), there's no way to allow additional folders (like /net from autofs) in snap apps etc. It's just a myriad of issues which make working with the system unnecessarily complex and frustrating, and there seems to be little progress fixing those.