Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
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Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve - OMG! Ubuntu
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Snap is crap. It has been from the start, and it's only getting worse since then. It basically goes against anything thousands of developers worked for for decades: to save resources by making them shared and reusable.
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Drives are huge and computers are so powerful now that it doesn't matter. It used to, but not any more. This philosophy also breaks things when two programs need conflicting versions of a library. Happens all the time.
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I had to drop the snap after a few months of it being OK enough but the Flatpak works great so all is well
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Ha. Flatpak got the honorable mention.
The big selling point of snap was getting packages directly from the developer instead of through maintainers. It’s strange that it’s using the maintainer model without Valve’s support
This smacks of 'Canonical realizes it has to shoehorn in all popular apps to make Snap capable of competing with Flatpak'. Steam is, for better or worse, one of the most popular applications in the world right now.
Right now, Canonical is doing the same thing Sony does whenever they try to float a new media format: Beg, Borrow, Steal, Blackmail, Bribe, and Bully anyone they can into using it to try to maintain some control over the future of that media. Also, right now, they're in the same place that Sony WAS in when VHS hit the market. Betamax/Snap was/is failing not just for technical reasons, but because it's bad for everyone around for one bully to control an entire market.