The steam launcher is a mess, and Valve refuse to fix it. Seems like they don’t want my money then. I have no trouble with running pirated singleplayer games through Lutris, so I’ll just do that instead.
I don’t really care about this specific problem. I care about Steam being a bad experience in general. Look, I get that people are downvoting me because it seems like i am whining about something minor. But the thing is… if Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher work flawlessly, and Steam has always been wonky, why would I put my money there? Seems like Valve can’t keep up. Unless they can deliver a good experience, they won’t get my money.
Steam released an entire Linux OS; I think it’s safe to say that Steam is on-board with Linux gaming in general. Everything has bugs. If you’re just looking for a reason to justify piracy, then fine, but this seems a little out there. What will you do if Lutris releases with a bug that crashes your system? Switch to Windows? haha
I’d hazard a guess that most people down vote you not because you don’t want to use steam or that you want to pirate, but rather because it’s most likely something wrong with your setup and you can’t be arsed to figure out what the problem is. Which might end up being a lot more serious than simply being unable to launch steam.
IMO, figure it out, get your system to work properly and then go pirate if that’s what you prefer.
