The Steam client comes with a version that includes fixes and improvements

La remake of the steam clientAlthough it is Beta, it brings some improvements and corrections of some interesting known bugs for all those addicted to video games on Linux. As you know, Steam is Valve's client for the world of digital entertainment and it is available for GNU / Linux distributions, and of course it comes by default in its own distribution called SteamOS that we have talked about a lot in this blog.

The new version of Steam brings, among other changes, has eliminated a bug specific that only affected Linux clients and that affected desktop and application menu shortcuts. The bug is not something new, in fact it was reported on GitHub since June of this year, but people have had to wait patiently until the Valve developers have tackled it and implemented an improvement in this new release. In addition to that, the developers have also fixed other bugs and added new functionalities and optimizations in the code. For example, support has been included for automatic downloading of pre-compiled games for Vulkan and other Steam applications. An important improvement for the performance and performance of Linux video games in the future. There are also changes in the configuration, support for Xbox controllers has been added, both for the Mac and Linux versions, etc.

Support for the gamepads of the PS4 have also been improved along with those of the Xbox as we have commented in the previous paragraph. And that's not the only thing that has been added and improved, the list is longer, although this is the highlight. On the other hand, there are still some things to improve and some other bugs that are still waiting to be corrected. Although neither these nor those of the previous versions prevented the enjoyment of the users ...