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Steam is doing something wrong on Linux. I can't put my finger on what it is, but on my AMD based machine running a recent-ish Ubuntu it's just..a mess in both
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Steam is doing something wrong on Linux. I can't put my finger on what it is, but on my AMD based machine running a recent-ish Ubuntu it's just..a mess in both X and Wayland.
Sometimes it's their annoying chrome-fork, steam-web-runner or whatever in a constant crash-loop in the background, eating all CPU.
Other times it seems like if a game or the UI gets launched accidentally or automatically somehow on the integrated graphics, I have to go hunting zombie processes with kill -9 to get things to shut down enough so that I can start them using discrete graphics.
Sometimes launches games and they're in odd geometry.
Running it on X instead of Wayland sometimes fixes problems. But then other times not. Unpredictable.
They're using a chromium based shell, but I don't have these problems with other things like that (Slack, Chrome itself, etc.) And Wayland support in the chromium stack is ... ok? So what gives?
- ekidd 3y agoWeirdly, a lot of Windows games run fine on Proton. There are a couple that only work on the Steam Deck, which is an Arch Linux system. (There's actually a complete Linux desktop UI if you dig for it!) But the Steam client is weirdly dodgy, even though it should just be a web UI that makes a few system calls. It's much worse than an Electron app like Visual Studio Code. There's the next-gen Steam Deck UI which is less buggy but pushes a lot of graphics cards pretty hard.