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Epic Games Bragged About Beating Steam’s Boot Times So Valve Dropped A Patch (www.eteknix.com)
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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Could be you have it set to start up when you boot your computer, as it's pretty quick to "launch" when it's actually already running but hidden in the system tray. I have it set to be manually launched on mine and yeah 10 seconds sounds about right for what I'm used to (haven't restarted since the update).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    No I don't like it running in the background and It isn't set to start on boot. It bugs me when steam is running and I am not using it.

    Linux user, so no I don't hide it in a system tray.

    I think there is a clue here though: Linux does drive cache a lot. Possible that is why.

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