For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …

  • Hakuso
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    3 days ago

    Sitting at 1.4, right now, which is more than every other part of my system unless I’m using plasma crap on the desktop.

    That’s double Heroic, more than Heroic and Itch put together, and you could almost throw in Luitris (Before I dumped it thanks to Claude) and still use less RAM than Steam.

    Maybe they just suck at Linux? You’d think not, since they pretty much own the backend now with proton, but it’s sure the least efficient and most obnoxious piece of software I have dealt with.

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        3 days ago

        Currently running at, meaning at that exact moment, in the background with no game playing or service running.

        This, for those who have trouble with the English language, means that it is a current snapsot of usage not a record drain on resources.

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          3 days ago

          I understand that, I just don’t see much reason for it to vary wildly unless it’s processing shaders or something which wouldn’t really be a fair reading of its resource usage.

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            2 days ago

            Honestly think Steam should run a daemon, not a client. Their store is just fine in a browser, not everything needs to have integrated everything in it.

            Same for GOG, though, Galaxy is a hog but unlike Steam it is optional. Comet does everything Galaxy needs to do, for almost no resource usage, and there could be something similar for Steam put together by valve by the end of the week if they chose to do it.