• utopiah@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      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).

      • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yes.

        You can disable the ad popup window and you can set your start page to library. It’s all in the settings somewhere.

      • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        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

      • Vilian@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 months ago

        you con select to disable that welcome screen and automatically open library just need to change steam settings