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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?

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
    21·
    1 day 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·
      1 day 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·
        23 hours 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.