Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended
Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended
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Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended
I would argue this is the most important sentence in this article.
Not really, usually Steam packages on distributions aren't maintained by Valve. The only exception are .debs from their website. Even the Steam flatpak is community maintained.
I've had no issues with steam on nixos/nixpkgs. Flatpak also had it's fair share of bugs and games not working because of flatpak and proton using bubblewrap for sandboxing. Snaps sandboxing might cause those issues too, so hopefully they'll be fixed at some point (or even better, Ubuntu switches to flatpak for desktop apps).
I know it’s because it’s horribly insecure, but it’s kinda funny that fucking winget of all things is one of the only package managers that install Steam without issue.
P.S. I’m a hybrid Windows/Linux user, pls don’t kill me
Edit: insecure and barely a package manager, but works roughly like one for an end user
How would I check which version I have installed? I just used Fedora software to install. I’ll have to check when I get home. Haven’t had issues, though, so probably not worth the trouble.
This time they said if you don't want the deb to use flatpak.
Actually it's Valves responsibility to tell the snap packager to kindly fuck off and don't fuck this up for us.
Ive only had issues with the snap or Flatpack versions. At least the Flatpack one is open source.
Fwiw, the steam snap is open source
The article also is too favorable for Valve and doesn’t mention alternative methods. The billion dollar company should allow people to install games on their browsers. The client is nothing but an analytics and tracker. There’s no benefit, just like there’s no benefit in XBox or PS4/5 achievements or their features.
You're kidding right? The Steam client is overflowing with features, beyond the nice and simple mod manager, multiplayey systems for easy joining it also has a full featured discord alternative inside the chat system with voice and text chat and I think even screen sharing. To compare it to Xbox achievements is just insane for how much the steam client provides.
How should that work?
Why is it Valves responsibility to provide alternative install methods? If you genuinely believe it isn't providing value just don't use Steam to buy games if you don't want to install using it.