I read their post in search, but I didn't find the part "Nvidia products will not contain such backdoors."

To me, this is sounding close to "We don't want to, trustworthy systems never will be built this way - but we have to."

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There you have it:

/snap/steam/current/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/snap/steam/current/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
/snap/mesa-2404/current/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu

Both the steam and mesa snap contain the needed 32bit libraries.

So, where is the advantage? The native package pulls in the libraries - and so does the Snap package... Of course. They're needed. You don't really see the count of packages containing the libs as a disadvantage, do you?

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Steam snap relies on gaming-graphics-core22 (which snaps kisak-fresh) and gtk-common-themes (the latter one is shared among several snaps).

So, where do the 32 bit libs come from that are needed to run the Steam client - let alone those that are needed to run 32 bit games?

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And it doesn't explain, why this is in any way "preferred"

I know of two reasons: Valve recommends other ways, and when you're doing support on the Steam forums, problems due to Snap and Flatpak keep popping up.

Of course, if you know what you're doing and can help yourself, use whatever floats your boat.

Really? All of a sudden 169 packages are something that goes without saying while at the same time snap packages are the source of all evil because they are oh so resource hungry.
And no: My rig has plenty of mass storage - still I'm in no need for 169 packages. And I can still remember it once got me into dependency hell when an i386 package was apparently out of sync with its AMD64 sibling...

I would be very surprised if there's no similar amount of libs provided by some Snap package your Steam package is depending upon.

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I've been dual booting from 1998 to 2014.

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Great improvements. Especially the custom sort name! emoji Now the time has finally come to fix those UPPERCASE letter game names or conundrums like MONSTER HUNTER WILDS and Monster Hunter: World. Now you're finally able to line up those games from the same series, but with different (stupid) titles.

I'd absolutely want my game to be shown with it's custom name as well, though...

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Could probably save a ton of money that way, but maybe they just don't want the overhead.

I don't know anything about the topic, but I'm sure they get very special discounts?

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So just hide the "illegal" content from the countries where it's deemed illegal?

... which is already implemented and used for Germany.

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Sony is fortunate that this is such a slam dunk rip-off that it should win, otherwise Tencent would crush Sony in court as they are a far larger company. lol

They seem to be on par (85/90 billion dollars sales volume). Plus, I don't think being say twice as big would make a difference. There's only so much money you can spend on lawyers.

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I've got the same problems on other websites. I want to have a cupboard/closet. I know the approximate size. Because, there's the space in my flat which I want to fill. But no, on the website there's giant space used for "Living room experience Foo" and "Sleeping dream Bar". You know, I don't care the slightest were you would put your closet. Let me search for width, height, depth, material, price, ... and show me what you've got for me!

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