I am using Arch linux on a nvidia machine with the latest nvidia package, and the default linux kernel. I have noticed steam takes forever to launch and seems to loop, this happens on both xorg and wayland
I am using Arch linux on a nvidia machine with the latest nvidia package, and the default linux kernel. I have noticed steam takes forever to launch and seems to loop, this happens on both xorg and wayland
I was having similar problems on a fresh arch install with multiple apps taking upwards of 15 seconds to launch, and the “fix” ended up being to uninstall one or more of the “portal” packages (there are several with names like xdg-desktop-portal-gtk). https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/issues/74 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285334 for more info.
Could be completely unrelated, but it might be worth a try.
You are right, this fixes slow startup times for Steam, Firefox, Thunderbird and various others.
Mine is legit only steam and takes upwards of 3-5 minutes