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Without any flashy marketing campaigns or social media fanfare, Valve rolled out a routine Steam Client update containing a very simple line in the patch notes: “Improved Steam Client startup performance.”

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[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Avoid stealing focus when the Steam main window opens, if another window was activated during startup/login.

Holy hell finally. This has annoyed me for so damn long.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

This annoys me too, not only with Steam. But I thought this is an issue on my operating system. I wasn't aware this could be solved by the client side.

[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

please understand, they're a starving indie company