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Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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Canonical is a joke
At this point, a bad joke
It's too bad. I feel like they're a versions of Ubuntu from 2006 to, say, 2012 or so, that were beautiful and perfect and were accessible to me as a college student. It set a new standard. It seems like half the battle is having people with good vision making important decisions so things don't go off the rails.
Yeah Ubuntu really used to be the go-to distro for me, now they're really my distro of last resort (of the top options).
Canonical does a heck of a lot more for the Linux ecosystem than snap. For instance they have an entire (growing) team dedicated to fixing reported bugs in various upstream packages.