Hi, I’m using Linux for a long time but its my first time with Endeavour OS(xfce) and I’m loving it. I installed steam with pacman and it loaded up fine. Games loaded normally and my FPS was reasonably good. But after the installation, every time when I open up steam it tooks about 1-2 minutes to open. And it couldnt be the hardware because I have pretty decent hardware(Ryzen 7 5700U, 16 Gigs of RAM and 512 Gig M2 SSD).
I tried installing steam from flathub. The loading time was still high. Is this a common problem or did I did something wrong ?
Flatpak applications tend to take even longer time to launch because they have to load their own libraries from the disk instead of just using the libraries that are already in memory.
And regarding steam’s startup time on Arch-based systems, there’s a couple of forum posts that discusses this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/qguhco/steam_startup_time_arch_1451_seconds_fedora_34/
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hello @paminks,
welcome to the purple universe 
Steam shouldn’t actually load for 1 or 2 minutes, for me it’s between 5 and 10 seconds if no updates are loaded.
Close steam and start it from the terminal and post the output here. Run the following command in terminal.
steam
Edit:
I forgot that you installed steam via flathub. I’ve never used it personally.
Hi, I forgot to mention I reinstalled with pacman(because flatpak install took another folder and refused to detect my installed games). Also I’m running steam via comamnd. Load time does not changes between running command and clicking icon. But thanks.
With the Steam command in the console you start Steam as normal, but the output in the terminal is interesting and could be helpful for troubleshooting.