Do you keep Steam running in the background all the time? - StrawPoll
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What is your opinion? Vote now: Autostart Steam with system, keep running in in background all the time, I start Steam manually, but keep it running in the background all the time, I

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?

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
    8·
    2 days ago

    Wait, the poll doesn’t work? Weird.

    I keep it on all the time even though I barely play games because I only have a 100/30 connection available so on the rare weekend occasion that my friends have time to play games, I don’t have to boot it up only to see that the game we want to play of course has a 5GB update that will take me a half hour to download.

    Forget about Squad where every file has to be reworked for a 10Mb update so it will max out an SSD for 20 minutes if it gets any hint of an update…

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlOP
      31·
      2 days ago

      That’s modern gaming in 2026 for you. About the poll, I don’t know why it does not work for you. VPN users are not blocked at all this time (in previous polls I did it was blocked). Otherwise maybe some browser extensions might block something?