Not looking for support. Just venting. Also I ask that you take the time to read this whole post before replying.

I'm not sure when this started happening since I took a long break from this game. But it seems to me like the overhauled Steam UI is the culprit or is at least related.

Sometimes it crashes on launch. Bringing up the Steam overlay instantly crashes it most of the time. Finally sprinkle in occasional crashes for no particular reason.

Valve as a whole has done so much for Linux as a gaming platform. I am very grateful for their contributions making gaming on Linux more viable. But the Counter-Strike team has a terrible history of only testing the game on Windows, with an SSD, and Nvidia graphics cards. The Retakes game mode still only consistently works on Windows. It's baffling. I expect better from the same company that's selling handheld Linux gaming machines. Especially since we're talking about one of Valve's biggest titles. Does this set a good example for other developers?

I know that CS2 is on its way. But I have absolutely no reason to believe that the team is going to suddenly care about properly testing their game and supporting anything other than Windows + Nvidia. The limited test straight-up excluded Linux, which only reinforces my assessment of their priorities. At this point I'm pretty much expecting CS2 to be Windows-only at launch, with other platform support coming later.

Obviously Valve doesn't owe me or any other Linux gamer anything. But the fact that Valve just doesn't give a shit about how CS:GO- a game that conveniently doesn't make sense to play on the SteamDeck- runs in Linux is just scummy.

I don't blame Valve for not fixing this new crashing issue. But knowing they could only test more on Linux, I think there's a slim chance it might've been avoided in the first place.