I would really like to ditch Steam in favour of a native GTK application which integrates better with my system and which is also libre software.
Does anyone know how well it works? Can I truly replace the Steam client with this or does it still have a lot of lacking features?
I’d also love to replace the Steam client, but both Lutris and GameHub require it to be installed to work. Out of the two, I I’d go for Lutris. It has much more active development and has it’s install scripts feature. I also have a lot of games on itch.io and would love to ditch the Itch electron client. GameHub has Itch game support whilst Lutris is still planning on implementing it. The problem that I have with GameHub’s implementation is that the games library is refreshed every time I reopen the app, instead of just caching them and having a refresh button like what Lutris has. This means that I have to wait a good 40 seconds every time I open it to be able to access my library, and it’s still really slow to get game thumbnails
Yeah, I think my ideal would be a native GTK, open source client for Steam, since anyway there are already clients for Epic and GOG, I assume that since Steam has Wine/Proton support people did not care that much to create an alternative to it.
Regarding the loading time Steam takes more time to load for me, since it usually goes like this: I open it, it logs in, it tries to fetch updates, it finally opens, and then it takes like 2 or 3 seconds until it responds. It does have a Flatpak, it just doesn’t work that well.