I had to drop the snap after a few months of it being OK enough but the Flatpak works great so all is well

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’

Ha. Flatpak got the honorable mention.

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.