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Steam as a Snap (canonical.com)
2 points by beebeepka on Oct 21, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Actually looks kinda appealing? I'm using the Flatpak on NixOS right now, and it's left a bad taste in my mouth. Tracking upstream Mesa drivers and pre-configuring MangoHud makes a pretty strong case for using the Snap.


Personally I run Steam (and pretty much every other gaming related program) through an Arch container using distrobox[0] on my NixOS setup. It runs without any issues and integrates with my system very well.

[0] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox


Sure would've made things easier for me back in 2019 when I was trying to have an Ubuntu gaming machine with a brand new RX 5700.




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