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Steam's Latest Client Update Introduces Many Refinements for Linux
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I completely forgot Steam used electron.
i haven't because it's been a completely unusable buggy mess ever since i've installed it, and it transitioned to electron, routinely uses 1gb of ram, 2gb on bad days. That's 2 whole USD wasted, and that's the price of CHEAP ram.
Graphics just don't work, that might be an nvidia problem to be fair, menus are broken, buttons haven't worked, refactoring the UI seems to make it slower. Scrolling a literal single web page is practically unusable due to lag and stuttering. If you use proton, and auto shader compilation, it's useless because you can't even configure how you want it to be run. Don't want to compile 12gb of shaders for a game that's 200GB? That you play 2 times a year? Get fucked.
on a per game basis? Last i checked you could only enable it for all games, or no games. I don't want to manually skip compilations, i want to select a list of games that automatically compile shaders, i don't want beamng to compile 70gb of shaders because it got an update this week, unless i'm going to play it, but something i play more frequently like factorio, i would like for that to be a regular function.
I'm fairly sure it's driver related, but steam is built on electron, and chrome/firefox work perfectly fine, and so does discord electron, so my only guess is that nvidia driver gaming is happening. Or steam has the single most incompetent installation of electron across any software i use.
I have no idea why only steam would be affected. That just doesn't make any sense.
doesn't seem to matter whether it's enabled or not, it performs like shit, idk why. Again, firefox and chrome are fine, discord is fine (it still runs like shit, but it's discord, that's normal)
it would be a great feature, and considering i own like 10 games, and there are people out there who own like, 200, i'm honestly shocked this wasn't immediately included? I feel like this is such an obvious thing. i would be surprised if somebody hasn't already requested it.
no, i'm on stable, because i like my software to work, though maybe i should fuck around with my steam install sometime.
i could, but im running a 1070 and a 5900x, im pretty sure it's not a hardware limitation. But i might mess with that later.
hopefully it improves. I'm honestly waiting for heroic to implement steam, or a decent CLI implementation to come about, SteamCMD does exist, but it's meant for server hosting, theoretically you could use it for client use, but i don't think it recommends you do that, for several reasons.