My biggest issue with Steam on Linux is the load times. They seem ridiculous for no discernible reason. Based on my watch opening simply loading a game must rea

My biggest issue with Steam on Linux is the load times. They seem ridiculous for no discernible reason. Based on my watch opening simply loading a game must read through 20 Gigabytes of files. Oh, wait. The game is only 14 G on disk. Maybe it's 14 gigs of ridiculously compressed data? Connecting to servers in TF2 takes an eternity, too.