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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

No I don't like it running in the background and It isn't set to start on boot. It bugs me when steam is running and I am not using it.

Linux user, so no I don't hide it in a system tray.

I think there is a clue here though: Linux does drive cache a lot. Possible that is why.