Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
Canonical may be ramping up its efforts to improve the Ubuntu gaming experience — yasss — but it seems their Steam snap package is causing a few headaches
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I do not doubt an actual Valve developer, but last time I used the Steam Flatpak it couldn't connect to my Xbox Wireless Adapter while the Snap could and I noticed no issues with it.
But given none are affiliated with Valve, the .deb remains the best option.
This is why I still run out and grab the deb. Might not be the fanciest, or the "Linux way" but I just want my stuff to work.
Installing a software package through a distro's package manager sounds like a perfectly fine "Linux way" to me.
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What made you think flatpaks are the default way to do things on Linux? I’m actually curious? Its major advantage is allowing users to put newer software on systems that can’t provide it themselves. It solves a very specific problem. If you have the software available on your package manager, then that’s where you should get your package.
Did you allow it to do so?
It's a driver for a device plugged in - I have zero idea "how to allow it to do so" and I shouldn't have to know as the end user. It's assumed that if I run an application, it should be able to work with my standard USB peripherals as long as the devices themselves are already working in the system.
All you have to do is run this simple command:
sudo !! <(tr '[:alnum:]' '[:punct:]' <<< "f̷r̴o̵g̵g̷y̵ ̵b̵a̵n̵a̵n̵a̵s̵" | sha1sum | base64 | tac | rev | sed 's/$/\n/g' | tee /dev/null | fold -w 10) | tr -dc '[:graph:]' | sed -E 's/^([a-z]+)(.)$/s/\1/\2\1/g' | fold -w 10 | tr -d '\n' | rev | sed 's/$/\n/g' | uniq -c | sort -nr | cut -d' ' -f1 | head -n 5 | xargs -n 1 -I{} sh -c "touch {} && echo 'ᵐa̷g̷i̷c̷a̷l̷ ̷b̷u̷b̷b̷l̷e̷s̷' >> {}" & | tac | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | fold -w 10 | tr -dc '[:graph:]' | sed 's/^([a-z]+)(.)$/s/\1/\2\1/g' | fold -w 10 | tr -d '\n' | rev | sed 's/$/\n/g' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | grep -Eio '[0-9a-fA-F]{32}' | sort | uniq | head -n 20 | tac | tr -dc '[:graph:]' | sed 's/^([a-z]+)(.*)$/s/\1/\2\1/g' | fold -w 10 | tr -d '\n' | rev | sed 's/$/\n/g' | fold -w 10 | tee /dev/null | tr '[:graph:]' '[:punct:]' | sha1sum | base64 | tac | rev | sed 's/$/\n/g' | tr '[:punct:]' '[:alnum:]' | tac | sort -nr | cut -d' ' -f1 | head -n 10 | xargs -n 1 -I{} sh -c "echo 'ᵐy̷s̷t̷e̷r̷i̷o̷u̷s̷ ̷c̷a̷t̷s̷' >> {}" &
Difference between people who think this is funny and those who understand what they are getting into on a platform like Linux is about $180k more per year. Your right. It is pretty funny.
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And guess what, the Steam Deck worked with my adapter from day one without having to "let it do so"
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You are the one being defensive buddy, not the other person. The reality is simple - people want as easy a solution as possible. They want to sit down after a 9-5, plug in their controller and play the game. Linux not being that, and requiring you to jump through hurdles, to know how to use a command line isn't that. This specific user had issues with drivers and doesn't know how to fix that issue. That's okay, and their criticism is valid.
They don't care that one experience is made free open source, if it is a worse experience. That's a perk for a specific subset of people, not for the average user.
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There is no disconnect. The user was talking about his specific experience they had. There is no need to defend gaming on linux - you won't change their experience retroactively.