zyratoxx

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

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”....

zyratoxx, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago)

Flatpak is open source, Snap isn’t

Flatpak allows other repositories besides the official one, therefore having the ability to be decentralised, Snap doesn’t

Canonical (the company behind Snap and Ubuntu) is hated for some past decisions they made with Ubuntu

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(The only thing I really prefer Snap over Flatpak is that you need the whole package name in Flatpak (like com.valvesoftware.Steam for Steam) whilst you can simply use “steam” in snap but that’s due to decentralisation vs centralisation I guess and overall a minor problem for me)

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