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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 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

That's pretty unfair. Before Valve's efforts, the first thing we PC gamers asked eachother about a new game was always "could you get it running?"

Three bad old days were quite bad, and they started getting better in lock step with Valve's improvements to Steam.

Correlation/causation and all that. But for a lot of us Valve earned a lot of goodwill simply by allowing "request a refund" on games that run poorly. (Edit: which was apparently forced on Valve by a government. Valve got lucky there!)

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Their refund policy is due to getting slapped around in EU courts, not because valve is benevolent or anything. I do like steam a lot, but it is a near monopoly which acts as DRM to a degree. They did and would abuse that power unless regulated.

[–] Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe their refund policy is actually from ACCC in Australia, rather than European rulings

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

You're correct, Australia played a big role in it, and the EU was passing regulation around 2015 on that issue as well. So they got slapped around in Australia and changed it up before getting slapped around in the EU.

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