So I just replaced my graphics card with an AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT as I was having issues with Nvidia drivers. I replaced the card and then removed the Nvidia drivers with ’ sudo apt purge ~nnvidia '. I then restarted the computer.
Everything seems to be working correctly other than Steam will launch but when it tries to actually open a window, it will appear and then instantly disappears and will flash like this several times. The icon in the top bar is still there and I can use it to exit Steam, but I cannot open up any windows with it. If I start Steam from the CLI or start it with integrated graphics, it works correctly.
The new look steam got recently looks great but it’s absolutely awful performing on my machine… Videos keep playing after I leave the store page, it sucks up memory and processing in the background and recently consumed so many connects to the X server I couldn’t launch new programs. I’m gonna reinstall when I get home though and see if that improves things
I am also experiencing a lot of little weird glitches and bugs with the new UI that I never had before in all the years of the previous one. On the one hand, I love the look and new features. On the other, I just want the basic fucking shit I’ve already been using for decades to actually work. Most of these are specific to Big Picture mode, which has seen an even more dramatic UI change than the desktop version.