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Steam's Latest Client Update Introduces Many Refinements for Linux (news.itsfoss.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

steam provides a lot of utility sure, that's why i even use it at all. But just because a shitty app provides a lot of utility doesn't make it a good app, if anything, the steam client is MVP, nothing more. Just barely good enough to ship to market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Some parts are really well polished IMO:

  • everything touching downloads (esp. with the recent-ish improvements) and installation
  • library management and family sharing
  • steam link
  • steam input

But there are also a lot of rough edges, like high resource usage and weird interface bugs. It could be better, but it could also be a lot worse.