Pierre-Loup A. Griffais, Valve Hi Liam,



Not quite; we're looking at some of the underlying technology to see if it would be a good fit to improve the Steam runtime environment interactions with the host system. If we went forward with it, we would be using some of the same kernel functionality Flatpak/bubblewrap is, and hopefully reusing some core code, but we have no plans to change the cross-platform distribution and packaging method at the core of Steam.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

After a rumour circulated on Reddit about Valve using Flatpak in future for Steam, it was suggested by user "gutigen" that I reach out to Valve for an official comment. I now have an answer.I asked a simple question: "People have been claiming that Valve is moving Steam to being a Flatpak package, would you be able to confirm if this is happening?"The reply was this:Quoted with permission.To put that into simpler terms: they won't be using it for how they deliver the games directly, so you won't in future get games downloaded and installed as Flatpak packages, but how Steam itself is packaged and interacts with your Linux distribution may change in future.So essentially, nothing is happening right now as it's still at the research stage. However, it is great to hear that they are actually looking to further improve Steam on Linux.