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> was generally kind of clunky and buggy Steam is by far the jankiest program I have installed on my machine. It's TSAB (time to seeing a bug, I just made it u

> was generally kind of clunky and buggy Steam is by far the jankiest program I have installed on my machine. It's TSAB (time to seeing a bug, I just made it up) is measured in seconds, not minutes or hours. I know they're raking in money for being what is mostly a very large FTP server (I kid...), but please spend some of it on the basic experience.

happymellon 3y ago
Strange, Steam is quite stable for me. On both my SteamDeck, my couch PC on the main TV, and my laptop. A lot more stable than Tim Sweeneys ego.
pdimitar 3y ago
I have only seen one Steam bug once in the last 6 years and that was a game that restarted its download from scratch, followed by the client crashing. Never happened again, never saw another bug either. Used it on hard drives, SATA SSDs and NVMe SSDs.
ElectricalUnion 3y ago
Of all the "app store" type programs that I have to interact with, Steam is somehow the least painful one. And I deal with a bunch of them; Gnome Software, Microsoft Store, Epic Games Store, Google Play Store, (Samsung) Galaxy Store, F-droid, not counting some dedicated pseudo-stores aberrations like JetBrains Toolbox and Wargaming.net Game Center... Those are all much smaller (ok, Google Play Store is probably the largest), almost featureless in comparison, yet they are slow as molasses and buggy as hell.
- subtra3t 3y ago
  Maybe its just my bad system (integrated graphics, 4 GB ram, i3 8th gen processor) but Steam actually performs far worse than MS store, Gnome Store, and the Google Play Store (though thats on my phone and not my laptop).
  - jstarfish 3y ago
    Your system is either old or a Chromebook heh. Same problem here. Try disabling the options that preload and refresh all the store/community "stuff" behind the scenes. Maybe auto-updates too.

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> was generally kind of clunky and buggy Steam is by far the jankiest program I have installed on my machine. It's TSAB (time to seeing a bug, I just made it u

by have_faith 3y ago

happymellon 3y ago
Strange, Steam is quite stable for me. On both my SteamDeck, my couch PC on the main TV, and my laptop. A lot more stable than Tim Sweeneys ego.
pdimitar 3y ago
I have only seen one Steam bug once in the last 6 years and that was a game that restarted its download from scratch, followed by the client crashing. Never happened again, never saw another bug either. Used it on hard drives, SATA SSDs and NVMe SSDs.
ElectricalUnion 3y ago
Of all the "app store" type programs that I have to interact with, Steam is somehow the least painful one. And I deal with a bunch of them; Gnome Software, Microsoft Store, Epic Games Store, Google Play Store, (Samsung) Galaxy Store, F-droid, not counting some dedicated pseudo-stores aberrations like JetBrains Toolbox and Wargaming.net Game Center... Those are all much smaller (ok, Google Play Store is probably the largest), almost featureless in comparison, yet they are slow as molasses and buggy as hell.
- subtra3t 3y ago
  Maybe its just my bad system (integrated graphics, 4 GB ram, i3 8th gen processor) but Steam actually performs far worse than MS store, Gnome Store, and the Google Play Store (though thats on my phone and not my laptop).
  - jstarfish 3y ago
    Your system is either old or a Chromebook heh. Same problem here. Try disabling the options that preload and refresh all the store/community "stuff" behind the scenes. Maybe auto-updates too.