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Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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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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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Steam had no part in gaming history, they were not the first online platform.

Lmao. This is like saying the iPhone or iPad had no part in smartphone/tablet history, because neither were first to the market. It's a ludicrous take.

Valve had nothing to do with gaming history

Lol

they are just known for their lawsuits and anti competitive behavior.

I'm willing to bet this isn't true lol. Valve is only known for anti-competitive behaviour? Come off it.

[–] firecat@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Iphone wasn’t part of touchscreen technology either. They were just the first to try heating sensors. It’s still being used in android devices too. The ability to use physical sensors is gone. Apple killed it off.

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