Steam also goes to Flatpak

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Steam, Valve's famous software for digital entertainment, is also moving to universal packages. For those who do not know it yet, I present it. Steam is a digital content distribution and rights management platform developed by Valve. It allows both large and small and independent developers to offer their video games and material through it to bring them closer and make them known to users. So we can enjoy all the services offered through it.

That said and going back to the news itself, we have seen that Steam has become more secure and isolated thanks to sandboxing of this type of universal packages of which we have already spoken. These new packages allow an easy installation in any distribution and other advantages such as isolation to be more secure like the famous snap of Canonical and others. So all those who want to try Steam or already have it, but want to enjoy the advantages of this type of package, you can now also find it in this format.

For those who do not know what it is Flatpak Still, to say in a simple way, that it is a type of package for GNU / Linux, similar to Canonical's Snap packages in some aspects, universal since it can be installed in many distributions, and that it seems that it has more and more followers. From the official website of the project they present it as the future of application distribution, and they intend to revolutionize installations in the Linux world as you may already know.

In addition, a number of interesting platforms and tools have been created around Flatpak, one of them is Flatub, whose name will perhaps also remind you of others like Github. Is about a web from which you can build and distribute Flatpak applications and with similarities with the aforementioned Github.


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