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The steam launcher is a mess, and Valve refuse to fix it. Seems like they don't want my money then. I have no trouble with running pirated singleplayer games through Lutris, so I'll just do that instead.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, hang on a second. I haven't used Steam in about 2 months now just as I'm studying, so maybe I'm missing some recent development, but Steam has worked for me near flawlessly on various Linux distros, from Ubuntu to Arch to openSUSE.

I'd say take a step back, I presume you're on Linux, and just make sure this isn't something your own PC that's causing Steam not to work. Checking logs and whatnot to at least begin with, checking how it's installed and if installing it in a different manner fixes it, basic troubleshooting steps.

Maybe Steam is absolutely borked, but usually, the way I see it is that realistically, if Steam works on popular distros like Ubuntu (which I imagine is the main one they would check against as well as whatever SteamOS is based on), then it's actually something wrong with my setup, and it's on me to fix or workaround. If its clearly something wrong with Steam, lodge a bug report. If they don't respond to you then I think sure you're justified to say they don't want your money.

Until then I don't think it's entirely fair to seemingly come out of nowhere, and instead of doing what most other people do and say "Hey, Steam's crashing and unusable, here's the info I have, help?" you look like you're just accusing Valve of not supporting your likely niche distro on your specific hardware.

Maybe I'm wrong about all the assumptions I'm making here but you're not exactly giving a lot of info here, and to me this just looks like an unproductive bitchfest about a program, and I think that's why people are down voting your post.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ooo maybe that will fix Cryptic's shitty launcher too but I doubt it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I had a problem using Steam as flatpak - after downloading ~15GB the system may freeze or after playing for some hours. If you're using PopOS you should disable flatpak installations and install everything via deb-file.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Works perfectly fine for me, tried it on Linux mint, Fedora and steamOS(obviously it works there)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Obviously not applicable to OP since they want to pirate but I'll add my two cents and say that BTRFS would cause Steam to freeze my computer. Disabling CoW on impacted directories made the problem lesser. I have since switched to ZFS and couldn't have been happier with it.

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