Canonical announced some time ago their Steam Snap which was promoted as stable with Ubuntu 23.04, as they continue to push their own packaging format with Snap but it seems this has been causing problems for Valve.
The day they started pushing snaps into APT and making it a pain to choose the non-snap version… I left Ubuntu. If I wanted to install the snap I would’ve used snap install not apt install
Yeah before I use Ubuntu. my first exposure on Linux is Linux Mint and it seems Linux Mint support secure boot atm. if this gets worst. I will go back to linux Mint again
Or you can use Linux Mint Debian edition, which is basically the same, but with older (and better maintained IMO) packages from Debian instead of newer packages from Ubuntu.
I left when they moved my window buttons (close, minimize, etc) to the left side for no good reason (back on 10.4 I think), and I felt validated when they introduced, screwed up, and later removed upstart and mir (mir still exists, but it’s a Wayland compositor, not a Wayland competitor).
Ubuntu has a long track record for trying new things, making them default, and then backpedaling when it doesn’t work out. There really aren’t many things they’ve produced that anyone else actually uses. Snap is just another one of those projects.
I use another distro that packages Steam based on the deb, and it works well too. I haven’t found any reason to prefer the flatpak, so I expect to only have issues with it. Why change what works?
I tried to install steam on Ubuntu 22.04 and I just see the snap version. Is it true that we cannot run sudo apt install steam anymore?
The day they started pushing snaps into APT and making it a pain to choose the non-snap version… I left Ubuntu. If I wanted to install the snap I would’ve used
snap installnotapt installYeah before I use Ubuntu. my first exposure on Linux is Linux Mint and it seems Linux Mint support secure boot atm. if this gets worst. I will go back to linux Mint again
Linux Mint is just Ubuntu but with no snaps and better optimized for desktop (as opposed to server) use
Or you can use Linux Mint Debian edition, which is basically the same, but with older (and better maintained IMO) packages from Debian instead of newer packages from Ubuntu.
For sure, LMDE is fantastic at this point. Best reason to take regular Mint over it is the built-in alternate desktop options.
I left when they moved my window buttons (close, minimize, etc) to the left side for no good reason (back on 10.4 I think), and I felt validated when they introduced, screwed up, and later removed upstart and mir (mir still exists, but it’s a Wayland compositor, not a Wayland competitor).
Ubuntu has a long track record for trying new things, making them default, and then backpedaling when it doesn’t work out. There really aren’t many things they’ve produced that anyone else actually uses. Snap is just another one of those projects.
Use the flatpak
Sorry I found it this is the best sudo add-apt-repository multiverse sudo apt install steam
valve always recommends native deb and my experience with deb is flawless so far
I use another distro that packages Steam based on the deb, and it works well too. I haven’t found any reason to prefer the flatpak, so I expect to only have issues with it. Why change what works?