Steam Beta improves download speed of Steam Client updates on Linux / Steam Deck and other fixes

Valve just released a fresh Steam Client Beta available for all platforms that includes some feature tweaks and a healthy injection of bug fixes.

Since it's a Steam Client update, it applies across the board on Linux, macOS and Windows systems. However, there's one change that's very specific to SteamOS / Steam Deck:

• 'Enable Steam Play for all other titles' is always enabled on SteamOS, updated the UI accordingly to stop showing a non functional toggle.

This toggle is still there in the Desktop Linux client. It likely won't be long before they just remove it entirely for Desktop Linux too, and just leave it to have the drop-down for you to pick the default version. Proton is so good now, it seems odd to have a toggle to turn it off.

Here's all the other changes:

General

• Fixed brief layout shift of elements (one or two frames) when navigating back to the library section.
• Fixed Steam Client window focusing multiple times on startup.
• Fixed Update News window being covered by Steam Client window at startup.
• Fixed notifications displaying in wrong position in some games.
• Fixed some instances where windows fail to render after display events.
• Improved consistency and clarity of download/install/update UI:
• Byte counts, when displayed, refer to the number of bytes to download.
• Progress bars and percentages, when displayed, refer to the total progress of the install/update, which includes work before, after, and during the download. The exception is the top (blue) progress bar on the downloads page, which shows the bytes downloaded.
• Time remaining estimates refer to the total progress of the install/update. These estimates will be very rough at first but will become more accurate as Steam learns more about the performance of the user's network and disks.

Big Picture

• Fixed issue that could allow the keyboard to cover the target text area when summoned from a game.

macOS

• Added Steam Overlay support for games using HDR rendering.

Linux

• Improved the download speed of Steam client updates.
• No longer applying compatibility tool filtering to shortcuts.
• Fixed a rare issue where non-steam Protons could get assigned an incorrect compatibility tool.

Steam Input

• Fixed crash when using "Hexgaming Phantom Controller", related to Gyro Timestamp Information.

Source - Valve: Desktop changelog | Steam Deck changelog