Here’s a person having this issue in Manjaro and not in Windows 11: https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/6717729343888060324/

I link that specifically, because it’s newer, showing the issue still exists.

Someone linked a reply to an article from 2015, talking about how to fix the issue: https://ein-eike.de/2015/01/02/fixing-download-speed-problems-under-steam-for-linux/

Another Steam Forum post about this from 2021, where multiple people talk about having this issue: https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/3083256496964006577/

And of course, if you check Reddit, there are at least 50+ posts ranging in time from 2014 - 2023 about this.

Everyone says to fix it, download DNSMASQ, and disable IPV6. Both of which don’t fix it for me, or pretty much anyone else having the issue since 2015.

just going to say this are you sure you haven’t checked updated and uninstalled drivers and also prehaps checked to see if its a hardware issue maybe worked your way through some troubleshooting guides maybe

I don’t really know how else to troubleshoot it. I’ve changed distros mulitple times, downloaded Steam from different repos/directly, and tried all of the "fixes’ posted online. My NIC isn’t the issue, since I am clearly getting 1887Mbps down in Firefox. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to try them.

Truth is, no one knows why it’s happening, or what the actual fix is, and they are pretending to withhold the fix until I apologise for saying Linux doesn’t just work like Windows does. None of these hateful Lemmy Linux users that are attacking me actually know how to fix it, but they can’t admit Linux can be hella janky.

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:

I’ve spent the past 2 days being called names because I am having an issue with download speeds in Linux, and I said Windows is better because in my experience it just works.

Someone literally told me to apologize for saying this, lmao. I’m called an idiot, moron, that I am the problem, all because Linux refuses to work, and the hardcore FOSS/Linux Lemmy community can’t handle it.

This place is so tiring. Reddit users were toxic, but Lemmy users are even more so. I guess that’s what happens when you get all the banned people, like you said, and a group of people who hate Reddit, in one place. Lemmy reminds me of VOAT. Instead of insane right-wing hate, it’s just insane hate to anyone who dares pay money for something, or says something negative about FOSS/Linux.

It’s the “snowflakes that can’t handle the truth”.

Why do Americans think you need to carry a debt to build credit? That is the opposite.

I put EVERYTHING on credit card, and pay everything off on time. Never missed a payment. My credit score was the highest it can be by the time I turned 21. I’ve never paid a penny in fees or interest.

I’m confused how two drunk people having sex is date rape? I mean I’m assuming OP was also drinking.

Canada doesn’t even give people on disability enough to afford rent, let alone groceries, power bills, car insurance, etc.

Maybe start there. Help the disabled survive.

Says the guy who wrote a rant reply to my week old comment. Cope, buddy.

Don’t volunteer if you’re just going to complain about it. You sound worse than Reddit mods.

Mine isn’t like that. Google clock on pixel 7 Pro.

Edit: mines like that. It’s the snooze time you set in settings that apply to all alarms.

Honestly makes sense to do it this way. Pick your exact time limited to 30 minutes. Set it once and forget it.

Op is just farming for outrage.

What app?

I have a pellet gun that shoots at like 1500fps.

Cats lucky. If the kid had a powerful one, and didn’t hit just the tail, that cat would be dead.

Neckbeards fighting about Linux. No girls in sight.

Like Lemmy.

Exactly. Discord isn’t a service name first, it’s a word with meaning.

People acting like discord is a made up word invented by the app.

I weirdly don’t find this creepy, and I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s because the terrain is difficult and it’s very perfect timing, but not creepy?

Before I read it, I thought it was going to be some deserted island and a living person, who wasn’t them, made it for them. Kinda like a “get off my island” type deal, but creepy because they didn’t know a living person was nearby, which could’ve been bad.

But instead it’s just lost people get lost close to a place where someone got lost previously, and it just so happens a helicopter flew by and saw the sign from the previous person.

If you’re making your own scripts that can wipe out an entire, legitimate, actively contributing member, you’re incompetent and should shut that shit down.

A script should never do that. It should flag them for manual review.

Sorry, but it’s 100% on the mod team. Let’s switch out power trip for incompetent.

I don’t? Are you assuming because I clicked a random post I saw on the active tab that I run pirated Windows?

Ya! And then just quit my job, since none of it runs on Linux.

Most average people are afraid of the command line, and really want a GUI for everything. Many of these people’s first exposure to Linux could scare them away depending on the distro they happened to choose, I think.

Or it’s the fact the community is so toxic?

Every computer, doesn’t matter brand or hardware, never works 100% out of the box on Linux. Doesn’t matter which distro.

You ask online, and people scream at you to run terminal commands or go back to Windows.

You run a terminal command that breaks your system, and people blame you for running random terminal commands…

You go back to Windows, and people say “Linux is so friendly, you don’t even have to touch the terminal anymore if you really don’t want to!”

Rinse and repeat.

Linux - I can’t run that software.

Linux - I can’t run that hardware, the drivers are for Windows/Mac only.

Linux mobile - I have the performance and depth of a diaper full of shit. (cough, cough²)