cm0002@lemmy.world to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoSteam's Latest Client Update Introduces Many Refinements for Linuxnews.itsfoss.comexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1411arrow-down14
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minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·6 days agosteam provides a lot of utility sure, that’s why i even use it at all. But just because a shitty app provides a lot of utility doesn’t make it a good app, if anything, the steam client is MVP, nothing more. Just barely good enough to ship to market.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoSome parts are really well polished IMO: everything touching downloads (esp. with the recent-ish improvements) and installation library management and family sharing steam link steam input But there are also a lot of rough edges, like high resource usage and weird interface bugs. It could be better, but it could also be a lot worse.
steam provides a lot of utility sure, that’s why i even use it at all. But just because a shitty app provides a lot of utility doesn’t make it a good app, if anything, the steam client is MVP, nothing more. Just barely good enough to ship to market.
Some parts are really well polished IMO:
But there are also a lot of rough edges, like high resource usage and weird interface bugs. It could be better, but it could also be a lot worse.