It takes approximately nineteen thousand winedbg processes to fill up 32 gigabytes of RAM.

Is it angry at me because I blew up a steam locomotive's boiler in Derail Valley earlier?

Steam client scares me.

I fear no binary, but that thing...it scares me

You should probably know that actual steam is not beneficial to game performance on Steam.

Ah this happened to me this weekend! Not the train explosion, but the winedbg flood. For me, it was because I had my proton and steam Linux runtime installations on an NTFS disk instead of something more Linux native.

So greasy its nickname is now Burger

Fuck off Randy

Why is that? I use it because it convienient and it works (for me). But what's a reason to not use it? Is it unstable, or resource intensive? I only have a couple of games less than ten years old.

It's actually woking better for me now. I think they fixed GPU acceleration on Nvidia

perhaps because it's proprietary or still X11-only

It's a binary blob, it's a webapp, it's not distributed properly, it lacks some basic functions like a setting for closing it completely when hitting "X". We no likey.

This classic bug:

https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

iirc they have both a 64-bit bit version and a wayland version of steam on the beta branch, so they're at least branching out (though it remains proprietary and almost certainly always will)

Is it unstable, or resource intensive?

Yes and yes. Most of the Steam client is implemented, poorly, as a web app running in a web view derived from (I believe) an old version of Chromium. It's needlessly resource-intensive, even more so than Electron apps. The suite as a whole uses its own libraries in ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_{32,64} and I'm pretty sure it still depends on some 32-bit-only things. The overlay sometimes causes ridiculous performance issues related to input events (I move the mouse and the game drops to single digit framerates) even if the overlay isn't active. The Steam Input config utility is poorly designed and horribly implemented.

Lately it's also been trying to murder my PC.

I love Steam as a service, but the client is in an unacceptable state.