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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by have_faith on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:08AM (#37613049)
> was generally kind of clunky and buggy

Steam is by far the jankiest program I have installed on my machine. It's TSAB (time to seeing a bug, I just made it up) is measured in seconds, not minutes or hours. I know they're raking in money for being what is mostly a very large FTP server (I kid...), but please spend some of it on the basic experience.

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by happymellon on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:31AM (#37613365)
Strange, Steam is quite stable for me. On both my SteamDeck, my couch PC on the main TV, and my laptop.

A lot more stable than Tim Sweeneys ego.

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by pdimitar on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:53AM (#37613625)
I have only seen one Steam bug once in the last 6 years and that was a game that restarted its download from scratch, followed by the client crashing. Never happened again, never saw another bug either.

Used it on hard drives, SATA SSDs and NVMe SSDs.

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by ElectricalUnion on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:27PM (#37614080)
Of all the "app store" type programs that I have to interact with, Steam is somehow the least painful one.

And I deal with a bunch of them; Gnome Software, Microsoft Store, Epic Games Store, Google Play Store, (Samsung) Galaxy Store, F-droid, not counting some dedicated pseudo-stores aberrations like JetBrains Toolbox and Wargaming.net Game Center... Those are all much smaller (ok, Google Play Store is probably the largest), almost featureless in comparison, yet they are slow as molasses and buggy as hell.

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by subtra3t on Friday September 22, 2023 @02:08PM (#37615488)
Maybe its just my bad system (integrated graphics, 4 GB ram, i3 8th gen processor) but Steam actually performs far worse than MS store, Gnome Store, and the Google Play Store (though thats on my phone and not my laptop).
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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by jstarfish on Friday September 22, 2023 @04:04PM (#37617034)
Your system is either old or a Chromebook heh. Same problem here.

Try disabling the options that preload and refresh all the store/community "stuff" behind the scenes. Maybe auto-updates too.

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