Curious to learn if it’s limited to data within Steam itself or more. So far the only thing that I saw that could change my behavior is the start screen on Steam (even if I start games, e.g BG3) straight from my KDE menu. Curious to know if that can be disabled.
Thanks for the clarification but seems I wasn’t clear. I know how to start a game without Steam and how .desktop work (made some before). What I meant is rather can I start Steam itself to avoid their welcome screen and go straight to my game library? This way I would avoid their “suggestions” which are, in fine, ads (and thus what I imagine they collect private data for).
There are many tools for Linux that do a lot of different stuff
I remember there were some that allowed running games straight without steam and maybe even creating shortcuts, but any of those is a headache to setup, I mean, to run a game without steam you need to do 15 manual steps, to create a shortcut 30 manual steps
Edit: maybe something has changed, I don’t use steam a lot, and I used those tools some years ago
P.s. the coolest tool for me is the app for extracting tye session with all those steam guard and etc
Curious to learn if it’s limited to data within Steam itself or more. So far the only thing that I saw that could change my behavior is the start screen on Steam (even if I start games, e.g BG3) straight from my KDE menu. Curious to know if that can be disabled.
it’s named .desktop, steam put them on your .local/share/application
Thanks for the clarification but seems I wasn’t clear. I know how to start a game without Steam and how .desktop work (made some before). What I meant is rather can I start Steam itself to avoid their welcome screen and go straight to my game library? This way I would avoid their “suggestions” which are, in fine, ads (and thus what I imagine they collect private data for).
Yes.
You can disable the ad popup window and you can set your start page to library. It’s all in the settings somewhere.
you con select to disable that welcome screen and automatically open library just need to change steam settings
There are many tools for Linux that do a lot of different stuff
I remember there were some that allowed running games straight without steam and maybe even creating shortcuts, but any of those is a headache to setup, I mean, to run a game without steam you need to do 15 manual steps, to create a shortcut 30 manual steps
Edit: maybe something has changed, I don’t use steam a lot, and I used those tools some years ago
P.s. the coolest tool for me is the app for extracting tye session with all those steam guard and etc
Answering my own question here, since nobody actually helped :