Steam's Latest Client Update Introduces Many Refinements for Linux

I really hope they come with a wayland native version in the near future.
- This, proton and an app I need for work are all that's left before I can trash xwayland... can't wait!

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
- 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.
  
  flatpak is the official release of steam iirc, so that's why.
  
  cries in Ubuntu

I was hoping there would be something about resource usage. Curse you, steamwebhelper
- 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
  
  Wait really?! Feel like that's a bug that really needs addressing
- Also not a fan of downloads eating a core.
  
  Isn’t that just because they download a compressed format?

All I really want is a context menu to open the game's Wine prefix directory.
- yes please. It's super annoying in general but on deck it gets old so fast that it happens in the past.

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.
- 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.
  
  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.

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.
- 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
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Exactly. Pick a solid distro, install graphics drivers if you have an nvidia card, then install Steam, and you have a solid gaming distro. SteamOS makes sense for a console-like experience, but a distro doesn't.
  If you want a "gaming distro," look up Bazzite or Nobara, they basically do that. But it's really not necessary, any solid distro is equally capable of being a gaming distro.

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.
- OMG thats what that is... I thought I was crazy
- 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
  
  I will try this thanks.
- Does copying the desktop file to the applications directory in ~/.local help?
  
  I don’t know I haven’t tried that as I can go in and change the file, and set PrefersNonDefaultGPU=false and it works after that.

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 :(

Still waiting for a fix to make Steam library sharing usable on a multi user system without quietly failing with nothing showing
- Yes please, I've just been hit by this yesterday. Though there are workarounds.. But they aren't pretty.
  
  Mine is to just create a separate user to use steam... Kinda like Steam Deck, but I hate relogging every time I want to play a game

How about you fix cs2 for Linux?
- If ProtonDB says that it’s working then it’s working, most likely something ain’t right with your setup.
  
  Did you even read the page?
- I'm playing cs2 and everything is working bro
  
  resolution changes lead to gui breaking and inaccurate mouse movements unless in windowed mode
  Audio breaks forcing people to create a special config file for Pipewire
  Gamescope does not work in comp (developed by valve) and has given vac bans for even using it
  The FPS is lower than windows and has micro stutters when compared with windows (Nvidia reflex?)

- You pirate games because Steam opens a window?
  EDIT: Seems you're starting to resort to cheap attacks on me because you got downvoted
  
  Gabe Newell said it himself. Piracy isn't a price issue it's a service issue. If the steam client is shit. Then we're going to go pirate
  
  I share clean steam files for the ones I buy too. What you gonna do about it?
  
  You never owned an nvidia card or are you just shilling for steam?
- Not sure wh the downvotes. I had to switch from gnome to KDE for the problem to go away. Steam client beta branch didn’t do anything
  
  I'm on nvidia and it's such an irritating bug cause a lot of the times games don't launch or work properly cause of the steam window in the background. It's a legit issue, idk why steam fanboys are mad.
  Thanks, I'll try kde as you said. Never knew kde fixed it.
  
  Have you tried flatpak instead of native install?
- Checked and no they haven't lol.
  I don't think this used to be an issue because I used to use desktop icon launchers in the past, which makes it weird that it somehow changed. I think maybe after the big new UI update?
  
  This has been an issue like 2 years maybe or 1. I checked too :(

How bout anti-cheat, so we can play multiplayer games? Please.
- We have that. Depends wholly on the developer to implement it right.
  
  Depends on Publisher allowing Linux Support.
- Just drop the anit-cheat requirement and let is handle cheating directly, with vote-to-kick, like we did back in the day.