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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (41 children)

I agree on the lemmy being quite tiring at times my first ~~second~~ post garnered alot of attention and I had to deal with those unsavory types anyways what are you having troubles with on linux I'm a bit of a newbie myself but I might be able to help m8

Here's the post ~~glourious shitpost~~ in question https://lemmy.world/post/6586403

[–] Polar 1 points 2 years ago (40 children)

Steam only downloads at around 120Mbps on all of the distros I've tried, which are Ubuntu 23.10, Fedora 39, and Manjaro 23.0.4.

The distro sees my 2.5Gb NIC, and the web browser downloads at full speed, but Steam refuses.

I tried everything. Changing servers, installing DNSMASQ, different distros, etc. and nothing fixes it. DNSMASQ did bump up my speed to 300Mbps for a second, but then right back down to 120Mbps.

Upon Googling this, it's a known issue. A LOT of people have the issue. Some them say DNSMASQ fixes it, others say Valve fixed it years ago, and others, like me, say nothing fixes it, and we move back to Windows where we get 1900Mbps download on Steam.

Everyone who wants to fight me about this, calling me names, all say it's "an easy fix", but refuse to tell me until I tell them I am a stupid idiot and apologise for criticizing Linux.

Here's my issue:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've noticed that Steam for Windows displays download speed in mbit/s while the Linux client displays it in mbyte/s, although both display the unit as mb/s. This is a setting that can be toggled. This doesn't account for the entire difference (1887mbit > 109mbyte) but is one contributing factor.

[–] Polar 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In my screenshot Steam is set to Mbps, same as speedtest.

Also the time left to download rdr2 in the screenshot wouldn't be that long if it was MB/s instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, that's annoying. Have you reported the issue to Valve? Seems like it's their issue to fix. I personally haven't encountered this issue, so I'm unable to help further, but it seems that it's an issue with Steam's Linux client since the rest of the system is unaffected, as I understand it.

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