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taken VRAM before closing Steam: 3 GiB
taken VRAM after closing Steam: 1 GiB

Valve, are you okay there? Is everything all right? Do you need help?
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@snacks even dickscord client doesn't leak so much VRAM, it took around ~500 MiB.
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@snacks @a1ba They don't even use Electron, they turned the whole client into a qtwebengine wrapper.
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@a1ba i freezed my steam install on y2022 version and will not update it until valve allows disabling steamwebhelper again.
mandatory browser is a nonsense! Using chromium is double nonsense

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@a1ba They do. They forgot how to use anything other than Electron for GUI.
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@lispi314 it's not just electron, but CEF.

But the whole client is a complete CEF slop now, so no wonder it does that.
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@a1ba Gross. Why not make a Qt or Tk GUI instead?
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@lispi314 they had their own lightweight UI toolkit that got replaced by Web slop after a bunch of Valve contractors found too complicated, I guess. What a skill issue.
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@mittorn @a1ba I've recently had issues with steam constantly refreshing and making my system lag like crazy
It turned out that I had forgotten to add swap and the OOM killer was going to town on steamwebhelper

Which I guess was a fair choice

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