There is a zero chance I will install windows to update firmware on anything, fwdupd or GTFO.

You can always use Virtualbox with a USB pass-through. I have a Tiny11 VM specifically for firmware updaters. Haven't had an issue with it yet.

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Quoting: user1

Quoting: robvvand the only issue I've had is with GPU accelerated rendering, which seems to be a bit unstable.

This is a gross understatement. In my experience, Steam is literally the only app on Linux that may cause a total desktop freeze (no matter on which DE, X.org or Wayland) after which I can do nothing but hard reboot my PC. The only workaround to it is disabling hardware acceleration in Steam.

Also, how about the fact that Steam context menu contents are 95% of the time unclickable. This is an issue since the big ui redesign update and it still hasn't been fixed after more than a year or two. You have to click sometimes dozens of times until game properties finally opens for example.

Oh, and also how Steam was already slow to launch on Linux and since the big ui update it's even slower. And many more annoyances..

I mean don't get me wrong, I have endless grattitude towards Valve for everything they've put into Linux, but you honestly have to admit that when it comes to the Steam client itself on Linux, it's a POS and the forever unfixed issues with it makes them look lazy.

These seem like isolated issues. Like, I've been running Steam on Linux for nearly 7 years now, and haven't once seen any of this, or reports of this, until now. Save for the context menu thing, but I've only seen that reported for custom themes, and it's due to the new JS engine Steam uses being resource hungry. Are you running on hardware that's older than a decade or something? Because that would explain a lot of the things you described. Also, if you have your games installed to the same drive as the OS, and you have Steam configured to precache shaders, that might be why it's so slow to start. It totally chokes the system with high I/O on start when it runs through the shaders, and performs updates. Move your games to a different drive, and this problem usually goes away.

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Quoting: neolith

Quoting: mZSq7Fq3qsI miss the times when allmost all games had their own dedicaded servers available and you could just host your own server.

Good god, yes! I am SO annoyed by the fact that community maintained servers are going the way of the dodo... :angry:

There's quite a few indies that still allow self-hosting. They're mostly MMOs and survival games, but that's kind of how it's always been. My friends and I run servers for Abiotic Factor, Enshrouded, Palworld, Valheim, and we're thinking of kicking a Path of Titans server. We hate playing on pubs, and if a game offers a server, we try to opt for that.

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