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[-] [email protected] 99 points 2 months ago

I really hope they come with a wayland native version in the near future.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

This, proton and an app I need for work are all that's left before I can trash xwayland... can't wait!

[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

dropdown menus now appear correctly.

I feel like I've heard this before. Anyway, if it's true they've finally fixed a bug that's almost two years old

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I had this until I switched to flatpak version a year ago. That helped both with graphics driver issues and the stability of the main client for me.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

flatpak is the official release of steam iirc, so that's why.

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

I was hoping there would be something about resource usage. Curse you, steamwebhelper

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah. If you leave a steam page open, it'll create a very slow memory leak. Left store page open for about a week, came back to 6gb steamwebhelper xd

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Wait really?! Feel like that's a bug that really needs addressing

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

what kind of sane person is gonna leave a steam page open for over a week, though?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I can see it easily being accidentally left open if you have a busy desktop and don't regularly restart your PC

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

In my case, i use multiple workspaces. Had a workspace for gaming set up and left the window on the store page. Had a busy week so I didn't game. I usually don't turn off my computer because I contribute to Folding@Home at night. Week flies by and I start to wonder why my ram is full and investigate :D

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Also not a fan of downloads eating a core.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Isn’t that just because they download a compressed format?

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

All I really want is a context menu to open the game's Wine prefix directory.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i hope it finally fixes the bug that makes steam have alzheimers when it comes to windows size and position.

because I'm sick to fucking death of having to constantly resize and reposition the windows every time i switch between small/large and when launching.

Its so bad that I gave up and just started browsing steam store via browser.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

I hate that it steals the focus like 5 times when launching. I'll try to click off to do something while it's starting, but it steals input focus. I get doing it once when the app finishes loading, but I really don't need to stare at the startup progress bar.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Steam, as a program, has fundamentally gotten worse with every update ever since they switched to electron/chromium

remember for a while they tried to take small mode away from us.

cause they are going down the same route that everything goes. Its gotten popular, so now they are trying to turn it into a social media platform.

I dont want a social media playform. theres already enough of those. I just want a small, slick, low resource, easy to use, quick to load program to buy my games and launch them.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Small mode? I had completely forgotten that it existed. I didn't know anyone used that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

it had utility, it would reduce ram usage, make the program more usable. But now it doesn't because it's all fucking electron, so it's literally useless.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I would love to see valve eventually have a whole team dedicated to their own OS and make it a super viable and stable distro.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why would they do that when the community already does? - nothing valve is doing isnt already in Fedora/ublue or Arch, people who say they are going to switch when Valve puts out a general SteamOS image are just wasting time and procrastinating

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

OEM interoperability/functionality guarantee

The last big game dev holdouts will agree to target Linux if the PC userbase jumps significantly and Valve guarantees a standard expectation with technology with things like rolling kernel, latest libs, steam functionality, etc.

There's still a lot of stupidly annoying things that are missing like proper wayland (valve->frog) and its resultant features like HDR, VRR, etc.

The linux packaging problem from 20 years ago is still a problem (albeit much less) which Torvalds himself mentioned Valve would just say "screw it" and bypass/solve the problem via Steam (which they did). The issue is the remainder. Kernel updates are all over the place depending on distro. Everything Ubuntu is technically out of date because SteamOS uses Arch. Fedora gets you closer at least.

It's really just that OEM guarantee that would get it moving quicker. Although it might not even happen tbh, Valve said they weren't that interested in competing against Microsoft which makes sense because its still the primary OS of their customer base.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I'm not waiting to switch. Well other than waiting for the next time I refresh my hardware. I try to only switch my OS when i do new hardware. I mentioned it because I like their style and ways of doing things and I'd enjoy having them in a broader OS sense.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Please fix the issue where you change my default graphic card settings in the desktop file. It’s super annoying to have to launch from the cli after an update.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

OMG thats what that is... I thought I was crazy

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I don't know if this would help but it might be worth a try, make a file immutable by

sudo chattr +i /file/location

If it doesn't work change it back,

sudo chattr -i /file/location

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I really would like steamwebhelper to stop crashing randomly. It breaks game recording, and it doesn't come back until you restart steam.

So many good clips lost :(

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Still waiting for a fix to make Steam library sharing usable on a multi user system without quietly failing with nothing showing

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes please, I've just been hit by this yesterday. Though there are workarounds.. But they aren't pretty.

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