{"id":212149,"date":"2026-02-10T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/this-nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-has-gone-unfixed-for-seven-years\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:35:07","slug":"this-nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-has-gone-unfixed-for-seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/this-nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-has-gone-unfixed-for-seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"This nasty Steam performance bug for Linux has gone unfixed for seven years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-gone-unfixed-seven-years\/\">This nasty Steam performance bug for Linux has gone unfixed for seven years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-gone-unfixed-seven-years\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-gone-unfixed-seven-years\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-10 23:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ll be one of the first to shout to the heavens that     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"1027818\">2026 will be the year of gaming on Linux<\/span>, I&#8217;ll also be quick to admit that the scene is definitely not perfect. Sometimes you need to perform some tweaking to get a game running just right, and hopefully, with all the advancements that Linux devs have been making over the years,     <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, someone has discovered that the way you launch your game matters if you set launch conditions on Steam. And while someone had already reported the issue several years ago, it&#8217;s still a problem today.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tGOG has already started working on Linux gaming as it says they&#8217;re &#8220;a big fan&#8221; of the OS<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">GOG is hitting the ground running with its FOSS support.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"running-a-game-via-the-steam-system-tray-will-disregard-your-launch-issues\">\n                        Running a game via the Steam system tray will disregard your launch issues<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"the-problem-has-been-around-for-a-while-now\">\n            The problem has been around for a while now<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>Over on the Linux Gaming subreddit, user Reasonable-Flow3984 had noticed something odd with their Steam games. Whenever they launched their games via the Steam library, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-gone-unfixed-seven-years\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This nasty Steam performance bug for Linux has gone unfixed for seven years https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-gone-unfixed-seven-years\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/10\/5-things-valve-needs-to-fix-with-steam-on-linux-featured-1.jpeg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-212149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212151,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212149\/revisions\/212151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}