Valve is seeing an increasing number of bug reports for issues caused by Canonical's repackaging of the Steam client through snap.
The best way to install Steam on Debian and derivative operating systems is to follow the instructions at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/#getting-started and use the official .deb
We are not involved with the snap repackaging. It has a lot of issues.
If you don't want the .deb, please at least consider the flatpak version.
I don't know why anyone would prefer a snap or flatpak when a deb package exists.
I'm not against either packaging system—they may be imperfect but they're at least trying to solve certain problems—but when a package exists for your _native_ package manager I don't understand why you wouldn't use it preferentially.
@fourlastor @jeffalyanak @TTimo
>>deb packages gain root privileges while installing
False. apt needs root privileges to install pkgs, those pkgs don't gain root privileges automatically, you'll still need to type your password if you want give them root privileges when executing those same pkgs, just like you do with flat pak, snap, etc.
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