I’ve been a long term Steam user (10+ years) but after they changed the whole UI, where now it effectively is just Chromium Browser running a Web App, it started to get progressively worse. Everything started to take a lot longer than before (starting game, uninstalling game, moving files, etc.). Now it’s literally so bad that when I click “Play” nothing really happens for a good few minutes and then suddenly the game pops up. Why is that? I’ve checked logs and tried many things but to no avail. And the best thing? Every single game I downloaded from GOG comes up instantly. And also every single FOSS game I have installed starts up instantly (even 0 A.D.).

Maybe it’s because I’m on GNU/Linux and maybe the Linux native Steam client is just shit because I found out that it expects you to have systemd, whereas I’m using runit. And since the Windows Client has a higher priority it’s probably not likely for them to fix problems like this. I’ve been on their Github issue tracker many times before and they tend to be very unresponsive when it comes to bug reports or improvements.

That was my final straw. The communities becoming 4chan didn’t bother me that much because I just stopped going there after I noticed the large volumes of toxicity.