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Hello everyone! I have this issue with my steam on arch linux where it takes about 5 minutes and sometimes more to start, then I keep getting connection errors when trying to sign in. Ive opened an issue on the github page you can read for more details (logs etc)

Basically now I'm wondering if I should just reinstall steam and see if that fixes it. Here is the situation though. I have a steam library in my /home partition, as well as on a separate hard drive which is always mounted. I have copied the steamapps directory from the home side of things to a temporary location, so I assume if I reinstall and copy it back I should have all my games and stuff set up exactly as they were before the issue? Also, do I need to backup the steamapps directory from the hard drive which is separate to /home?

The reason I'm so hesitant to just wipe everything and reinstall, is because I spent a good couple of weeks trying to get Silent