New Steam Client Ups the Ante for Linux
The latest release from Steam has some pretty cool tricks up its sleeve.
Valve has release a new version of the popular Steam gaming app for all supported platforms (including Linux) that not only fixes several bugs but also adds improvements for gaming natively on Linux.
The big ticket addition, however, is the built-in Game Recording feature that allows users to record and share their gameplay footage. This new feature makes it easy for you to record and share footage as it runs in the background (so you never miss a moment).
You can read about all of the changes in the official announcement. As far as Linux is concerned, some of the fixes include miscellaneous common crashes, a slow startup issue (due to a reverse hostname lookup for the loopback interface), detecting and passing commands to an already running Steam client, a disable-screensaver-inhibit command-line option, default execution of native titles in “Steam for Linux runtime 1.0 (scout),” the removal of the UI toggle to disable Steam Play globally, and more.
There are also plenty of general fixes that apply to all versions of the app, such as an update to the embedded Chromium build in Steam to 126.0.6478.183, a fix for dragging and dropping text into a chat that previously sent the text immediately (instead of dumping it into the edit area), the re-enabling of remote installs from Steam client via the streaming drop-down menu, and more.
For more information on the new Game Recording feature, make sure to check out this dedicated page.

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