Do you keep Steam running in the background all the time? - StrawPoll
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On machines where you start Steam manually in order to play a game, do you keep Steam running in the background after play session is over? Meaning if you no longer play any game for the moment, and just keep it running to be ready. Or do you close Steam, after the play session?

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
    31·
    4 days ago

    I mostly use my Steam Controller to control my PC and the Steam keyboard is the best to use with the two touchpads.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
      21·
      4 days ago

      That’s actually a good point. This is basically my biggest problem with the controller (not able to use it for everything, because i love it, and because I don’t run Steam all the time).

      • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
        11·
        4 days ago

        You don’t have to use Steam. If it wasn’t for the keyboard I might not have bothered with it.

        • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
          21·
          3 days ago

          I’m not sure what you mean. If Steam does not run in the background, then Steam Controller does not work like a normal controller. There are workarounds with external drivers, which I don’t want to use. And some applications can add support on their own with SDL3 library builtin. But we are not there yet, for universal replacement.