• chagall@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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

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        This smacks of ‘Canonical realizes it has to shoehorn in all popular apps to make Snap capable of competing with Flatpak’. Steam is, for better or worse, one of the most popular applications in the world right now.

        Right now, Canonical is doing the same thing Sony does whenever they try to float a new media format: Beg, Borrow, Steal, Blackmail, Bribe, and Bully anyone they can into using it to try to maintain some control over the future of that media. Also, right now, they’re in the same place that Sony WAS in when VHS hit the market. Betamax/Snap was/is failing not just for technical reasons, but because it’s bad for everyone around for one bully to control an entire market.