The Steam Linux client is the biggest piece of shit I've ever used

The Steam Linux client is the biggest piece of shit I've ever used.
How did they even push this junk?
Surely someone at Valve is a competent Linux systems programmer.

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why would they want to invest resources into the least popular desktop platform to please some neckbeard

Last time I used it was on the Ubuntu Botnet 2 years ago. Seemed alright.

>expecting Valve to have competent Linux system programmers when the Linus contributors and and FOSS in general lack them

Based

I don't see or feel any difference between the linux and windows version. Works pretty good on both systems.

>Works on my machine
How about you actually say WHY it's a price of shit?

Steam on Mint once shit itself so badly that the entire package management system broke down. No idea how that's possible, but somehow it happened.

It's just as much of a mess as the windows version just in Linux
on some garbage distros you need to enable 32bit packages but that's barely valve's fault

GNU/Linux. Linux is a kernel.

What exactly is your problem with Steam on Linux? Like, Linux specific.
I don't have a single problem with it. Legit, I have a lot of problems with Linux, but Steam runs fine.

Btw at the moment I'm using Debian 10

somehow steam thought debian was the best distribution to use for steam lmao
>different repo for i386 arch
>shit ton of utilities for packaging
>heavily split packages
>always outdated and will not work with the latest nvidia driver
>dependencies are a nightmare

>shittalks with no examples
you converted me bro, fuck steam and FUCK you!

>Surely someone at Valve is a competent Linux systems programmer.

Nope.
Steam itself is a piece of shit.
The entire store is a web browser wrapped in a bad GUI.
The rest of the application is not much more than a cancerous DRM service and botnet chat service.
Valve doesn't care that it's bad because they make literal billions off of not having to try.

I use the flatpak and it works just fine :^)

why bother, when people who play games can just install windows? it is not like Jow Forums thinks where you can only have one or the other.

examples?

like, the only issues I've seen with the Steam client are chat image uploads screwing up constantly (all platforms) and the UI not updating for no apparent reason (macOS)

Never had any problems with it even runs most Windows games perfectly without any tweaking.
Only annoyance is that Dbus must be running. apart from that it's wonderful.

I am literally running it right now with most up to date nvidia driver and it works perfect under all Nix, ubutun and gentoo

>using a memepak for a shell script that downloads its dependencies which are the same for every system
Not a bright one, are ya.

I'm not saying it doesn't work, but is more work

I play games and I got tired of windows' shit. Went over to linux and I'm doing just fine.

>competent Linux systems programmer
no such thing

Why bother? Linux people will whine at anything you give them so might as well just do it to say the client's been ported.

>Surely someone at Valve is a competent Linux systems programmer

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Oh looks it's another larping microshit shill.

Steam is spyware I am glad you Valve cucks are suffering for using it on Lunix

all computers are spyware user

Valve as a company is pretty retarded. They barely do anything besides sell games on an online store and yet they still manage to fuck up. Lower your expectations.

>wasting time

Captcha is spyware but here you are.

that shouldn't happen. sure it could corrupt or delete the .steam directory, but that shouldn't have messed with apt.

My experience with Steam Linux has been pretty good, with only the odd "close in the background" happening from time to time, but only on some distros. Pick a stable distro and you should have no problems. Thank you based Valve for letting us play Wangblows games on GNU/Linux.

I'm using kubuntu on a dell latitude e6410 with it
what the fuck are you talking about it works just as well as it did when i was using windows 7 on this machine

not always. muslc+busybox+linux is doable without any gnu component but gcc.

So should I install it natively or through the flatpak? Does using flatpak guarantee that everything would just werks?

Let alone people who won't buy games because they're not "open" source.

My experience with it has been pretty good. I use it extensively for in-home streaming and sadly they seem to have introduced a few bugs there recently, but I've used it for years and I can't say it has been especially problematic or unstable. It worked well mostly.

We should have a thread about apt being garbage instead

on the contrary, linux users pirate very little in comparison to windows as they want to support games/software for linux

No, it's just because there are much fewer pirated games for Linux. I have to use Wine to play my pirated games.

Free software means freedom, not price.

>using wine to play skidrow games
>not using a VM in qubes OS to sandbox the keygens from the games which are also sandboxed from your system

Eh that person was using Mint, which is a franken Ubuntu with all sorts of weird repositories. I've never had any issues with apt, except when autoremoving stuff that was only installed as a dependency on something else which was important.

I didn't have anything to do apart from using the package manager to install it then start steam by typing steam into a terminal. Everything worked without any tuning. Your system is just shut.

It's zero work. Learn to keep your drivers up to date by yourself, that's literally not Steam's job.

I've been using Steam for Linux since it came out in like 2014 or some shit and I've literally never had a single problem with it. What the fuck are you on abut? Using Slackware by the way.

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And OP disappeared like a ghost.

The whole thread is two people saying its shit and the rest of the thread asking the same "what are you talking about?" statement over and over.

what are you talking about?

What are you talking about?

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different cause same effect

its shit

>using video game software designed for children
fuck off man child

works on my machine

At least Valve can program a shopping card lmfao

why not just use both? VMs work better than ever, SSDs dualboot faster than ever. you don't get anything out of denying yourself access to the better gaming platform.

Have you tried Wine or Proton at any point in the past year?

>Using shitty Ubuntu

yeah still tonnes of issues.

works on my machine

>but user, the software isn't open source! who knows what malware those crafty game devs might sneak in!

>call of duty game has remote code execution exploit
fucking kek at least on windows running everything as admin even games you're basically fucked.
Even on linux an exploitable game running as your user it could still open your home directory up and do various shit on your system.

Yeah, no idea what this moron is going on about. Steam client runs fine for me.

I've had all of one game I've tried not work, and that was because of DRM.