Steam will no longer pop up at every startup if you use the latest beta

https://lemmy.world/post/11788519

Steam will no longer pop up at every startup if you use the latest beta - Lemmy.World

Now can we get steam not opening when we launch a game?
You mean just the UI popping up or steam itself? Because it’s up to individual games if they implement any steam drm, and if so how much.
steam is not a drm-free platform like GOG or Epic Games.
Most games use the Steam API to check stuff, so Steam client needs to be running.
(I’m actually kinda ok with steam’s drm btw, it’s not that intrusive)
I’m fine with the DRM. But why does the window need to open and take several seconds to “connect to the friends network” for a singleplayer game? This doesn’t need to be a blocking process.
Try staying offline on the friends network? Might help that issue.
There’s a setting somewhere to disable the friends list.
Isnt this possible? I do it with blender. Just right click the icon of the game and pin it to your taskbar then click it when you wanna launch the game
That depends on if the game uses the steam API for something like drm. Then steam has to launch.
Or the window popping up when you exit steam from the system tray just to show you “steam stutting down” and a spinning icon for 5 seconds.
Yes if you go to 20 years ago