I'll say it looks nice, but there are a lot of issues:

I can no longer pin the window to the task bar and launch Steam from that - what gets pinned is the "Steam webhelper", but clicking on that does nothing. Instead, you have to launch Steam (runtime) another way - apparently those two are now fully separate processes where they did not use to be.

Starting up VR now gives me a GPU driver crash the first time it is done and then works fine.
It also gives me a 109 error after VR startup (that doesn't seem to have any actual effect, though?).
Also, I can no longer access the desktop from within VR.

I keep getting notifications about wishlist items on sale. Again, and again, and again, for the same game.

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I tried to get into the 4th one (thankfully, there is no 3rd entry, that would have been really awful).

But that game is STILL so buggy, man...
A few hours into my playthrough, I always got a crash a few seconds after loading a save game. So that was that.

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Quoting: DrakkerThe plan is to add heat resistant mitts, which go in the gloves slot and that you can forget about forever after once equipped.

Okay. But only if you can add customizable patterns. :wub:

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The only thing I must say I don't like is the tongs system.
Before, you could just pick up stuff even if it was hot.

Now, you have to have YET ANOTHER ITEM in your (way too small anyway) hotbar you need to activate first before clicking on stuff. And not only that, but it needs to be in your offhand, which means even the hotbar isn't really that useful here.
Even more inventory tetris. That is just unnecessary, finnicky and very annoying. I'd put the constant need to drag items in and out of inventory and hands as probably the game's biggest annoyance.
It would be fine if you just had to have the item in your inventory in order to pick stuff up safely. I get that it's weird to just be able to pick up hot iron without protection.

Hopefully, a mod will come around that just disables or automates that.

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Damn it.

Every time I pull out, I read some news like that and it pulls me right back in.

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Modders and drama is like bread and butter.
You can have one without the other, but the experience is either stale or really weird.

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Quoting: scaineBut regardless, I doubt Chinese citizens, fearing for their lives would care to take any risks.

I think you need to turn down the drama wheel just a wee bit.
You started with arrest and now we're suddenly in a life or death situation.

The average Chinese citizen playing some video games are not fearing for their lives.
Even in China, committing a minor law infraction such as using VPN to circumvent restrictions to play a game will not get you thrown off the Wall...

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Quoting: F.UltraSince the survey have to be sent manually it would not be triggered by their computers accidentally being able to connect to steam for a few seconds.

You are just making stuff up here.
"For a few seconds"? Why would you assume that? Could easily be a lot longer.
I have no clue what time frame is needed for Steam to trigger that popup on your end, or under what conditions it fires, or if it is just random, or...

Could just be a "user X who was selected for survey has come online" trigger, which would be fine with even just some seconds...

Quoting: F.UltraSo people trying to fly under the radar of the Chinese Gouvernment would be perfectly fine with sending telemetry to a western company? and also not being 100% vigilant on what they click and agree to?

Yes, absolutely.
You radically overestimate how much people care about stuff like that.
We are not talking about some (rightfully) paranoid dissenters, but just a gamer who wants to play a game.

Quoting: F.UltraWhy would these people (who most likely are bots anyway) bother by also agreeing to the survey? AFAIK new accounts also don't get sent the survey in the first place.

I don't know. Seems the most unlikely to me as well.

Quoting: F.UltraOk so this one might be true since I don't even know what it would mean, to be completely fair I missed to read this one before my first comment.

Also seems the most likely to me.
It has to be either a mess up or a very, very specific reason.

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Quoting: F.Ultrayou have to agree to send it to Valve once it pops up and I have a hard time seeing anyone performing either of your points as thinking "yeah lets have Valve receive some telemetry".

You seriously think 99% of people care about their data being used?
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You start Steam.
The popup about the survey comes up.
You click through it half-blind like you click through most popups of that style.
Done.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicIt's because, in my opinion, the experience for Non-English speaking users on Linux isn't particularly great.

That's definitely an issue that will never get resolved unless someone took a humongous amount of cash into their hands and just made it happen.

Even when restricting it to Latin alphabet languages, you can get distros themselves with pretty good language support in some languages (German for sure, probably French, not sure about Spanish) - but as you said, as soon as you leave the confines of the distro interface, it's English or bust.
There is no "Microsoft help"-equivalent that would offer support for basically every question in basically every language - yes, I know those pages are crap, but at least they exist.
Or an automatically translated StackOverflow (and likes) that would be search-indexed for helping non-English speakers.

In my own experience, support is especially terrible for Chinese.
For a while I tried learning it and the hoops I had to jump through just to get keyboard support for Pinyin was absolutely crazy. Meanwhile on Windows, you can just go to languages, install Simplified/Traditional Chinese and you're done.

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