Steam Snap Status & Improvements

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Yes, exactly.

25.04 is already using a newer Mesa compared to what Steam snap depends on, and I tried to open an issue in gaming-graphics repo, but there was no response.

Not having Mesa 25 won’t be ideal for RX 9070 users

Forgot to mention: There’s no activity in the core24 branch in the last 6 months :frowning:

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I have no bad intentions saying it, but it looks like this snap is abandoned, there is no activity in issue tracker (i.e. Can't Create Desktop Shortcuts · Issue #421 · canonical/steam-snap · GitHub) so reporting bugs seems to be pointless, no activity in commit history, so… not sure if I would recommend installing it

I hope the situation gets better

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It is not abandoned, but there is a re-org going on regarding the teams, which might take a bit, but it will definitely stay fully supported by Canonical

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The shortcuts are being created inside the Snap folder, specifically in $HOME/snap/steam/common/Desktop, instead of the user’s desktop.

I ended up noticing another problem, the icons that would be used in the shortcuts are inside $HOME/snap/steam/common/.local/share/icons instead of being in $HOME/.local/share/icons

Which makes the system unable to find them.

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good to know, thanks

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It appears that the kisak-turtle branch in gaming-graphics-core22 snap was refreshed

  kisak-turtle/candidate: 25.0.7~kisak3~j                  2025-07-09 (196) 208MB -

Though I still hope that it’ll be rebased soon

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I’ve made some changes that may alleviate this issue.

However, we’ll need to wait for someone to approve these changes.

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> snap info gaming-graphics-core22 
name:      gaming-graphics-core22
summary:   Shared Mesa stack for gaming
publisher: Canonical✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/gaming-graphics-core22
contact:   https://github.com/canonical/gaming-graphics
license:   unset
description: |
  Graphics libraries useful for gaming platforms like Steam
snap-id:      JWD4nJLiCdHrZWKOWlzGbh0cv0omRmDj
tracking:     kisak-turtle/candidate
refresh-date: 17 days ago, at 06:33 EDT
channels:
  kisak-fresh/stable:     24.2.3~kisak1~j                  2024-10-07 (184) 202MB -
  kisak-fresh/candidate:  23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3        2025-07-09 (197) 212MB -
  kisak-fresh/beta:       ↑                                                       
  kisak-fresh/edge:       ↑                                                       
  oibaf-latest/stable:    24.0~git2311260600.945288~oibaf~ 2023-12-06 (136) 210MB -
  oibaf-latest/candidate: 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.3        2025-07-09 (195) 211MB -
  oibaf-latest/beta:      ↑                                                       
  oibaf-latest/edge:      ↑                                                       
  kisak-turtle/stable:    24.1.7~kisak1~j                  2024-10-07 (185) 222MB -
  kisak-turtle/candidate: 25.0.7~kisak3~j                  2025-07-09 (196) 208MB -
  kisak-turtle/beta:      ↑                                                       
  kisak-turtle/edge:      ↑                                                       
installed:                25.0.7~kisak3~j                             (196) 208MB -

I noticed that some channels’ Mesa versions downgraded. Can you make kisak-turtle the default since kisak-fresh & Oibaf’s PPA don’t have 22.04 anymore.

Funny thing: kisak-turtle still has 20.04 hahaha

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So nice to see the core24 Git branch finally getting some activity

Hopefully it comes out soon :crossed_fingers:

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Core24 Steam is ready for testing, see more here: Core24 Steam | Call for Testing

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When is it gonna be the new stable version?

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Once there has been enough test feedback? (Just a guess though :slightly_smiling_face:)