whelk comments on Steam Client Goes 64-Bit on Linux, Now Runs in Steam Runtime Container

[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 13 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I'd love a Steam client that didn't tie up more RAM than most of the games I play

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 9 points 15 hours ago* (2 children)

Yeah, I wonder if there's a way to disable the steam web browser to save RAM

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

steam is an electron app, itself needs a web browser to be displayed. you're essentially running chromium to run steam.

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[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 4 points 7 hours ago

Afaik they use their own thing, not electron. But largely you are correct

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