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Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (4 children)

We are not involved with the snap repackaging.

I would argue this is the most important sentence in this article.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On Fedora you could do flatpak list --app to look whether Steam is installed as a flatpak. If not it's installed through dnf, but that can be tested by running dnf list installed | grep -i steam. You could also open Fedora Software and I believe in the top right is a button to select where a package should come from. There'd be the option to choose between flatpak or rpm. Another way to test is to open a terminal and type in steam. If Steam opens, it's a rpm, if the command is not available, it's a flatpak (you'd need to use flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam, iirc).

    Packaging software is usually not that difficult, especially if it's already packaged in another packaging format. E.g. .deb and .rpm put the same files in similar places, the difference is mainly how It's specified where a file goes. Because Snap and flatpak are providing a sandbox, complex software like Steam can behaves unexpectedly (fixed a few years ago for flatpak).

    tl;dr

    You're right, it's not worth the effort. Both rpm and flatpak should work flawlessly. If multiple games actually have issues running trying out a different package might help, but I didn't have issues for many years, so you probably won't either.

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  • [+] -28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    XBox does the sane thing, why do you think it costs money to play multiplayer. Steam multiplayer isn’t even used because corporations have their own servers. The Client really is useless as it’s just a copy of XBox/PS+

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    • [–] 64 points 2 years ago

    Of course. Because snaps fucking SUCK.

    All my homies hate snaps.

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago

    most functional snap package

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    With the flatpak it barely even matters which distro you use. Flatpak steam & mesa and go play some games. I game on Debian stable now.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Why they don't take over the work and make it official with support is beyond me though.

    The flatpak version hammers my DNS-server when downloading it isn't funny anymore, 100s requests a minute for the same domains, it ignores the TTL too.

    I think they also use the flatpak version on Steamdeck? Really weird.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago*

    I've never read so many words I know and been so confused by how they were used before in my life

    Edit: oh this is a Linux gaming thing, didn't see where I was. I thought I had all the Linux communities filtered. Oh well ignore this

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    • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I tried to install steam on Ubuntu 22.04 and I just see the snap version. Is it true that we cannot run sudo apt install steam anymore?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The day they started pushing snaps into APT and making it a pain to choose the non-snap version... I left Ubuntu. If I wanted to install the snap I would've used snap install not apt install

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