new steam library is slow and unresponsive unless you run steam with native runtimes https://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/steam-native-runtime/
Hello @barfin, general performance with the 2019-09-17 Steam beta client is already being tracked at #6500, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6500#issuecomment-532667941.
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new steam library is slow and unresponsive unless you run steam with native runtimes
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/steam-native-runtime/