FLATPAK or SNAP

[JoshRegan195]

PLEASE pick one static package and make it your official primary release. Distro packages can come second.

After weeks attempting to get games to run properly, and constant tweaks after updates, I tried a FLATPAK and it worked first try.
I ran across a site with a revelation. -- https://wiki.debian.org/Steam#Troubleshooting -- has a line "Steam ships with its own versions of some libraries (the "Steam Runtime") in an attempt to emulate the Ubuntu 12.04 environment"
It continues on to say how Steam sometimes uses old libraries, sometimes uses new libraries. putting it in an inconsistent state, that is going to have many variations under different users. I was under the impression Steam wanted some common ground to offer game developers a platform to write for. This layer sounds like a great idea. You thought it too when you started with the Steam runtime layer, but it can't (shouldn't have to ) keep up with the Linux OS updates. As I understand it, if it were a FLATPAK, or some other static package then you'd be able to have a common platform ,(like a game console) with the advantage of feature updates at your pace, possible better than consoles because they will be stuck on old hardware. The FLATPAK I found shows unverified. PLEASE pick one static package and make it your official primary release. Distro packages can come second.

[sQuall_M]

yes

[drybones263]

Yes also, like it or not considering the fact that Flathub and Snapcraft is becoming the default place for GUI Linux apps nowdays, and the Steam Deck uses Flathub for getting more software.

IMO I wish Valve just took over the unofficial flatpak and properly use the xdg portals, which would fix all the issues flatpaked Steam and maybe snapped Steam has, and let that trickle down to the packager maintainers to make their native Steam package from that flatpak instead of an .deb. I think that would benefit everyone in the end.

[Adam]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.