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Steam is one of the worst software, it's frankly embarassing for such a huge company. It's a hotchpotch of different design principles and new features only get
by sunaookami 2y ago
Steam is one of the worst software, it's frankly embarassing for such a huge company. It's a hotchpotch of different design principles and new features only get tacked on with a very different UI + UX. The client is mostly webviews but they are so slow and buggy and they use a very old insecure Chromium version under the hood. The launcher is still a 32 bit program. It's sad that other launchers are even worse though.
- tapoxi 2y agoI checked and its using Chromium 126.0.6478.183 from July, which isn't that old.
- sunaookami 2y agoIt's four versions behind the current one with a lot of CVEs. There seems to be an LTS 126 but it's only for ChromeOS - it's at least behind this one which fixed one critical and two High CVEs: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/11/long-term-support-channel-update-for.html https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/11/long-term-supp... Even being only one version behind is dangerous for such a huge attack vector.
- 0x457 2y agoIt seems like a lot of steam client issues come from weird desire to: 1) Keep it 32 bit 2) Have a single store-frontend At least, it came to a conclusion that it steam itself should be responsible for managing runtimes for games.
- account42 2y agoExactly, Steam is very much the worst game launcher ever created, except for all the others.
- sneed_chucker 2y agoThe interesting thing is that Valve is not a "huge company". They're privately held and only had 336 employees the last time headcount was reported (2021).