Richard Ivánek

Hello, I think this behavior is not related to this specific laptop but rather the default behavior of many audio servers. There are many workarounds available for each server. I...

You may want to try [the workaround](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/10879#issuecomment-2171168395) for another issue I've discovered. I also had this issue before.

This happens to me too, also tested with the flatpak version and steam-runtime. Steam client version (build number or date): 1716584667 Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux Opted into Steam client...

@OdinVex Interestingly enough, Steam works just fine on my laptop with an almost identical Arch installation. I wasn't able to isolate anything yet though.

After spending some minutes staring at `lsof` output, I realized Steam was somehow using my work-related loopback hostnames I had defined in `/etc/hosts`. After I removed those, the issue went...

I've further narrowed it down to Steam having problems with loopback hostnames containing hyphens. By appending `/etc/hosts` with: ``` 127.0.0.1 te-st ``` I've been able to reproduce the issue on...