I boycotted this evil thing called Steam until 2011, when the retail box of Skyrim forced me to install it, Then Steam forced me to install an update so big that I couldn't play the game the evening although I had the DVD. Man, I hated you, Steam. Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 and XCOM followed next year, and then, what a surprise, Steam for Linux beta! I found two Windows games I bought in 2013, Bioshock Infinite and a Fallout New Vegas Ultimate pack for IIRC 5 bucks, and then everything was Linux.

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Quoting: ElectroDDI have the 18 years badge...

Do you happen to know how rare that is?

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Quoting: Ardje

Quoting: dpanter

Library: The Recent Friend Activity shelf has been removed.

But why? :sad:

Privacy?
I actually would buy a lot more games if I could just filter out some of the statistics it publishes about me. I mean, talking for a friend, because I do not play nor have the games I talk about.

I have a short friends list, but one of them is a former boss still working in my company. I do know these thoughts. If I would play such despicable games, that is, of course.

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I backed the game and I'm looking forward to it.

But man, I do hate this new title screen (shown as preview of the video as well), which is so much less dark than the demo was looking and feeling. I hope this is not a new direction of the game. I hope it was a publishers (bad) decision.

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So Steam ingested WINE too early?!? :D

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Quoting: x4mer

Quoting: SchattenspiegelInteresting: with SSD + HDD(raid0) ~ 1 minute
with SSD only ~ 12 seconds
to load the client.
Edit:
And for reasons unknown the loading time stays at 12 second after remounting the HDDs even after rebooting :woot:
Thank you very much! I would never have tried that.:smile:

HDD went to sleep and motor powered down? When remounting, the drive would be woken up.

Interesting idea, but shouldn't that be way faster than a minute?

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Quoting: EMO GANGSTERis it just me or does the download seem faster on this or is it just in my head

I had the downloads usually use my full 55 mbps, so I'm not expecting anything on this front. :)

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Quoting: Schattenspiegel

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: SchattenspiegelStill taking ages to start the client. Wish they would at least add a a banner or something to indicate the client is loading.

Still wonder why this is the case for some and for some others not...

Might be raw single core power. Whatever it does the first minute or so it only seems to utilize one core at a time.

I've got below 10 seconds I think. My processor (Ryzen 3700X is it) cannot be that stronger. :D

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Quoting: idk-manI absolutely hate this new design (talking about the oversimplifying Trend) Why can’t they just leave things as they are or at least give people the chance to change to the original design.

Well... They weren't good. I mean, from a usability perspective. If I understood correctly, I can now define the download queue with drag and drop, while before, I had to push the up arrow on the games in order... but in reverse order. Same for library places: The new interface can do more. And in my humble opinion, it also looks better, but well, that's just taste, isn't it?

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelStill taking ages to start the client. Wish they would at least add a a banner or something to indicate the client is loading.

Still wonder why this is the case for some and for some others not...

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