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

submitted 10 months ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm incorrect that my PC games didn't work on my PC?!

Shit. Thanks for clearing that up.

Your points about Vavle part of the same bullshit are worth raising, though.

But a unified store with reviews, a refund policy, , and installers that actually fucking worked was a really big deal, especially to those of us without bleeding edge hardware - which was most of us.

Edit: and don't start talking about gaming history to me, I was there for all of it. Pong didn't come with an installer, it came with the hardware. Turn those paddle knobs folks. Pong is still better than a lot of the shit you kids are playing.

[–] firecat@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You fake, everyone in the older days knows how the controls work. All except you younger people, you didn’t turn it, you slide it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvT8jG1OVdI&t

What you describe was the Arcade version, not the popular console versions.

Valve is in a lawsuit: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/valve-loses-bid-to-end-antitrust-case-over-steam-gaming-platform

Dell did make wild target: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ibz8kpsRHdk

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

you didn’t turn it, you slide it.

Like the cx30 on the popular 8 bit home console Atari 2600 which was a knob you turn?