• utopiah
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    7 months ago

    Curious to learn if it’s limited to data within Steam itself or more. So far the only thing that I saw that could change my behavior is the start screen on Steam (even if I start games, e.g BG3) straight from my KDE menu. Curious to know if that can be disabled.

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        7 months ago

        Thanks for the clarification but seems I wasn’t clear. I know how to start a game without Steam and how .desktop work (made some before). What I meant is rather can I start Steam itself to avoid their welcome screen and go straight to my game library? This way I would avoid their “suggestions” which are, in fine, ads (and thus what I imagine they collect private data for).

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          7 months ago

          Yes.

          You can disable the ad popup window and you can set your start page to library. It’s all in the settings somewhere.

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          7 months ago

          There are many tools for Linux that do a lot of different stuff

          I remember there were some that allowed running games straight without steam and maybe even creating shortcuts, but any of those is a headache to setup, I mean, to run a game without steam you need to do 15 manual steps, to create a shortcut 30 manual steps

          Edit: maybe something has changed, I don’t use steam a lot, and I used those tools some years ago

          P.s. the coolest tool for me is the app for extracting tye session with all those steam guard and etc

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          7 months ago

          you con select to disable that welcome screen and automatically open library just need to change steam settings

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      7 months ago

      Answering my own question here, since nobody actually helped :

      • Steam Settings
      • Interface
      • Start Up Location
      • change “Store” to “Library”