Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable
Canonical has announced that their Steam Snap package for ARM64 is now considered stable after months of testing. This development coincides with NVIDIA's recent RTX Spark announcement. The Steam Snap has shown strong performance on various ARM64 platforms, including NVIDIA DGX Spark and Dell Pro Max GB10 devices.
- ▪Canonical's Steam Snap for ARM64 leverages the FEX emulator to run x86/x86_64 games.
- ▪The Steam Snap is now stable after extensive testing and improvements.
- ▪It has been successfully tested on platforms like NVIDIA DGX Spark and Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops.
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Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 2 June 2026 at 08:50 PM EDT. Add A Comment At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable. Just in time considering this week's NVIDIA RTX Spark announcement, Canonical announced their Steam Snap for ARM64 is being treated now as stable. The platforms where so far they have found the Steam Snap on ARM64 to be working great includes the NVIDIA DGX Spark and other GB10 devices like the Dell Pro Max GB10, Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops, and the Radxa Orion O6/O6N.
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