Big Steam Client Update (June 14th)

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3687931965598906184

Big improvements and new features for the Steam Desktop client are now out of Beta!

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8 Comments

brihuang95@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 3y

Some interesting changes to the UI. I'll have to look more into what else is new tomorrow

xNIBx@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

Pinnable notes with adjusted transparency is pretty cool, especially for people who are on 1 monitor.

themizarkshow@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 3y

I've been on the beta for a while and like it much more than the old design. It also comes with some improvements like the notes feature

ankerous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

There does seem to be a lot of complaints over it but I like it so far. It definitely feels less sluggish for me in some areas than it used to.

Neon_Carnivore@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Wait a sec... was I chosen as a beta test case? Because I've had these features for at least a month. I thought they were already available to everyone.

GiuEliNo@feddit.it · 4 pts · 3y

Probably you are in steam beta program, you can join from steam settings and leave anytime you want

greo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Looks great but I have some scaling issues on a 1440p screen, hope it gets fixed soon

rhokwar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Yeah, same here. Apparently this has been an issue for quite some time, but it seems there has been a bit of progress lately. You can launch steam with a forcedesktopscaling arg to scale the ui like this:

steam -forcedesktopscaling 1.25

Some people in the github issue thread have reported issues like crashing and an oversized overlay though. See: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5908