Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam On Linux Should Stop Crashing If No OpenGL Drivers Are Found

Wednesday's small Steam client beta update should fix a crash when starting the Steam client when no OpenGL drivers are found...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-No-Crash-WO-GL

[Mitch]

This is awesome news.

Also, the headline made me laugh because you can funnily read it as two opposite statements
A: "Steam no longer crashes when OpenGL drivers aren't found"
B: "Steam is crashing when OpenGL drivers aren't found and it really needs to quit that"

[brent]

Stupid question, doesn't Steam use OpenGL for rendering its UI? Or can it use Vulkan as well nowadays?

[and.elf]

This is awesome news.

Also, the headline made me laugh because you can funnily read it as two opposite statements
A: "Steam no longer crashes when OpenGL drivers aren't found"
B: "Steam is crashing when OpenGL drivers aren't found and it really needs to quit that"

Yes. To solve the ambiguity, either it should be "[...] should now stop [...]" or "[...] should stop [...] now"

[geerge]

Stupid question, doesn't Steam use OpenGL for rendering its UI? Or can it use Vulkan as well nowadays?

Isn't it some electron or similar nonsense? I need to be mindful to close steam when I'm done playing a game otherwise it cuts the battery life of my laptop in half, something is seriously wrong with the steam client. steamwebhelper seems to keep a core consistently active.

[Blademasterz]

steamwebhelper is a big mess but nothing I can do to get rid of it 😂

[mirmirmir]

Nice shitposting bro (because it's less of a news, more of a whatever phoronix users are writing) (not that I'm complaining)

[luno]

steamwebhelper is a big mess but nothing I can do to get rid of it 😂

steam.sh is big mess too hope they rewrite it any sane language. too much bash scripting is bad and very hard to debug, atleast run shellcheck on it too

[fitzie]

vulkan is the future. opengl is dead and doesn't support modern hardware. developers have moved on. people who continue to want opengl to work are luddities.

[QwertyChouskie]

Isn't it some electron or similar nonsense? I need to be mindful to close steam when I'm done playing a game otherwise it cuts the battery life of my laptop in half, something is seriously wrong with the steam client. steamwebhelper seems to keep a core consistently active.

If you have a dGPU, then it's probably because Steam is launching on the dGPU by default rather than the iGPU.