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AntiGrieferGames Apr 27, 2024 @ 1:56am
Open Source Steam Client now.
Its very important for making many forks of those Steam Client, example making a low ram usage light weight steam client just for buy/play games example

Or making compatible older Operating Systems back, to get working better than newer operating system with same hardware like Portal 2 for the example

This idea is important and will save the player base1
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Start_Running Apr 27, 2024 @ 2:51am 
SMall Mode is already a thing. Also If all you do is buy and play games.. then the ram usage is gonna be at minimum already.
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AntiGrieferGames Apr 27, 2024 @ 6:55am 
Originally posted by Start_Running:
SMall Mode is already a thing. Also If all you do is buy and play games.. then the ram usage is gonna be at minimum already.
Thats too much effort, its better to make open source instead using that.
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Gwarsbane Apr 27, 2024 @ 8:00am 
Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:
Its very important for making many forks of those Steam Client, example making a low ram usage light weight steam client just for buy/play games example

Or making compatible older Operating Systems back, to get working better than newer operating system with same hardware like Portal 2 for the example

This idea is important and will save the player base1

As mentioned in a number of other threads on this topic, its more then likely never going to happen just because it would open up security holes.

Just recently there was almost a major security breach with Linux Distros. If it had not been for one person noticing a little higher then should be cpu usages, the backdoor that someone slipped in would have made it into official releases.


Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:
Originally posted by Start_Running:
SMall Mode is already a thing. Also If all you do is buy and play games.. then the ram usage is gonna be at minimum already.
Thats too much effort, its better to make open source instead using that.


If its too much effort to switch over and use small mode, then I got some news for ya... its going to be even more effort for you to program Steam UI just like you want it because others are not interested in doing it for you.

I put Steam in small mode and pretty much just leave it there. Super easy to use.
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Crashed Apr 27, 2024 @ 8:06am 
Steam Client is more than the maligned WebHelper UI; it's the platform both used for games to validate their DRM and where VAC is implemented. As such there are technical and legal reasons the Client cannot be open sourced.
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AntiGrieferGames Apr 27, 2024 @ 1:45pm 
Who did wasted steam points for giving jester award reasonless for that normal suggestion?
Last edited by AntiGrieferGames; Apr 27, 2024 @ 1:46pm
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nullable Apr 27, 2024 @ 2:22pm 
Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:
Who did wasted steam points for giving jester award reasonless for that normal suggestion?

Valve is aware of OSS. If they wanted their Steam client to be OSS, it would be OSS. And if they don't, it won't.

Also why do you care about the graphic someone bestowed upon you for free points?
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Start_Running Apr 27, 2024 @ 3:16pm 
Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:
Originally posted by Start_Running:
SMall Mode is already a thing. Also If all you do is buy and play games.. then the ram usage is gonna be at minimum already.
Thats too much effort, its better to make open source instead using that.
Well they're not gonna make an open source cliuent. Very few companies maoke open source clients to interface with their closed and secured systems.

It'd be a goldmine for all the scammers.
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Crashed Apr 27, 2024 @ 5:09pm 
Originally posted by Start_Running:
Originally posted by AntiGrieferGames:
Thats too much effort, its better to make open source instead using that.
Well they're not gonna make an open source cliuent. Very few companies maoke open source clients to interface with their closed and secured systems.

It'd be a goldmine for all the scammers.
Scammers shouldn't be the issue, considering services that are plenty secure can have open source clients?

Wouldn't be the bigger issue be that the DRM depends on a proprietary client, due to how DRM has to manage its secrets?
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Start_Running Apr 27, 2024 @ 6:03pm 
Originally posted by Crashed:
Originally posted by Start_Running:
Well they're not gonna make an open source cliuent. Very few companies maoke open source clients to interface with their closed and secured systems.

It'd be a goldmine for all the scammers.
Scammers shouldn't be the issue, considering services that are plenty secure can have open source clients?

Wouldn't be the bigger issue be that the DRM depends on a proprietary client, due to how DRM has to manage its secrets?
The service can be secure. but the people themselves can be idjit.
I mean how much easier would scamming be if you could just point the victim to dload some customized version of the client ....
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Ben Lubar Apr 27, 2024 @ 6:22pm 
Originally posted by Crashed:
Originally posted by Start_Running:
Well they're not gonna make an open source cliuent. Very few companies maoke open source clients to interface with their closed and secured systems.

It'd be a goldmine for all the scammers.
Scammers shouldn't be the issue, considering services that are plenty secure can have open source clients?

Wouldn't be the bigger issue be that the DRM depends on a proprietary client, due to how DRM has to manage its secrets?

If people are running third party Steam clients, Valve can't make any guarantees on what that code will do.

People will run a third party client with malicious code, get their account stolen, and say "well, it said Steam on it".

Seems like a scammer's paradise given that the client is mostly just an interface to a website.
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