Steam now offers 74 more options (in addition to the existing 28) for you to select from when indicating which languages your game supports. You can find the full list linked below.
For games that have text and/or audio available in any language officially supported by Windows, there is now a way to share that information with potential customers via your game's Steam store page.

Please note, this is not a translation engine, DEVs still need to translate before they can add the content.
Also note that using the ISteamApps::GetCurrentGameLanguage API will not return languages beyond the existing set of 28 fully supported languages.
October 1st is when Steam will make this available to gamers on the end-user store pages via search options and language preferances, please have it available on beforehand.

Short info: https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3325361214990632479
Supported Languages: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/localization/languages
More information on managing languages in your game and Steam: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/localization

The lighter side of SteamVR 1.23, i guess
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/games/250820/announcements/detail/3387289425146917363

Finally getting rid of pesky start menu, search & other iritations of Windows 11
one feature
make me even wanna advertise myself: the new Stardock release (games & software on Steam - their previous Windows enhancing software doesn't work in 11)


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1811010/Start11/

[Edit] Note, i do hope it can be used WITHOUT Steam. Otherwise it'll be like Wallpaper Engine, everybody broadcasting their entire desktop.
I found no posts about broadcasting our desktops when Steam is running. This can be a problem as Ppl might broadcast their game and their desktop at the same time, having 2 broadcasts going (happens a lot with Wallpaper Engine, mostly by Chinese users). [endEdit]

[Edit] Somehow store link doesn't work for Start 11. Added no-parse.
And yes, this does work without Steam opened.

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Wow, it asks you to make a Microsoft account every 3 days? That's just messed up.

Yes, they "promised" to do so when i clicked away the message the first few times. But they stopped asking, even though it still says so in the message. Had one this morning but it was a long time ago since the previous one.

Have to say, it's not completely the same message now. In the meanwhile my motherboard and adaptor short-fused. First time in a many decades career the shop-technician had that happening on a custom rig build by him. I had to re-activate the Windows licence via phone-service and somewhere there-after an acc. i use in one of the Edge versions got "accepted" as the main email account used for the local computer account. So this morning i got a message to further complete the set-up.



Starting to think this is a lost cause anyway. When i look at all the new cookie policies from all kind of websites, they try to gather all of that info too. They know more about me then my psychiatrist knows! It's as if European Privacy Law didn't provide any privacy, all of it merely has better descriptions for even more invasive cookies.
{Now where did i hear that kind of "effectiveness" from new Laws before........?}

11 is much worse then 10 was for me, yes. Indeed, as with 10, installing offline gives some bonus perks....

No DL of ??? before we get to use the installation disk ourselves (see start of the video below: "Good things are comming your way")

Command to bypass online registration of a MS account and in stead install a local admin account that there-after gives choice to create accounts with limited rights, local user and/or MS user.
i found 2 such commands at Youtube. First didn't completely work for me. 2nd did, from this video below 9 minutes in.

Warning, as MS has disabled such work-arounds and commands in the past, and no-one else commented after my comment in March that it still workes, there's no guarantee it still works.

I debloated the admin account with the script given with this video. Debloating script includes things like Windows asking me for a MS account every 3 days, and prevents automatic re-appearance of bloatware that's uninstalled manually It also ads a few customizatrions, from TweakUI (my, that's long ago sinc i used TweakUI).
I didn't debloat the user accounts.

Warning, Research everything in the menu provided by the Github script where your knowledge might be lacking as you can delete things you wouldn't want to delete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ReoMuCUdKE&list=PLOLPNHHnxXeEz8SkjkaykpxXykHt7oW90

Originally posted by budozero:

I upgraded to Windows 11 early. I haven't come across any major issues I didnt face in Windows 10. A few new menus and UI elements seem useless, and as with Windows 10, I end up in the old Windows 7 style menus and CMD eventually. The "start" menu makes little sense in how little it can be customised, but I hotkey/search for everything anyway.

Bumbefly, did you try using Edge profiles? I use them in my new job which has systems that expect Edge only and I have to juggle accounts.

I welcome profiles in my game mod manager and some other stuff, but i did not yet try them in Edge. For me it's not just about keeping actual email messages seperate, it's also about preventing cross-contamination through the browser, as i tend to corrupted email and websites occasionally. And yeah, there're also browser specific advantages, f.e. MS for MS, Google for Google with exception of Youtube & gaming, that's for OperaGX. & Some browsers free of any account, amongst which a browser to open links from not yet trusted parties and another account-free-browser to research phishing links and a rare malware link i would find at Steam (not to mention another browser for the X-rated sites).

Originally posted by Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Did they change the Start Menu again?

Major change. MS pre-installed a lot of apps which they think the general public might be served with. Considdering: if most everybody can find a few apps they actually use, then everybody will also have apps in their recommended ("readibly available") start menu they don't use. In other words, there's more bloatware and this bloatware is more clearly accessible. For Ppl who use Xbox and Facebook and Twitter and Tiktok and {you name it} this is convenient, but for Ppl who don't it takes extra work to customize and/or an extra mouse-click to see all installed apps. The space the recommended apps take up from the start menu can not be recovered in favour of another type of start menu items.

Oh, one much talked about feature i forgot: You know, the browser of choice all the Youtube bloggers have one or more rants about? That also goes for other filetypes like documents and images. The advanced users already know this from the mediaplayer codexes. You either needed to add codexes to your fav mediaplayer(s) or have multiple of them installed to be able to play all common and uncommon mediafile types. For the advanced users this is a reasonably fine solution, to have those options in the OS. It does make installing mediaplayers and office suites more easy-going. But for the common users (& the majority of Ppl are) i agree with what they say about prefered browsers: realy annoying and confusing.

Libre is good, yet OnlyOffice gives me better compattibility between mostly GoogleDocs, MS Office and Open/Libre Office files, now i can't use Office 2010 anymore.

As for the use of Edge: yeah well, next to 3 versions of Edge and 3 versions of Chrome i still have 5 other browsers to keep accounts appart and still have all needed bookmarks ready whilst being separated from leisure time bookmarks. Besides having one reserved for phishers at Steam.
Mighty glad i already was accustomed to doing so on my previous computer. That with in 2021 hacked websites of several projects, where-of one dumped on my layman shoulders after i discovered the hack so the professional web-builders from that project could concentrate on building a new site from scratch.
In fact, i'm used to multiple browsers (not this many though) since Windows 7, because of severe malware infestation at 2 other projects/institutes where i worked + 2 where i was a regular visitor.
Needless to say, synchronisation defeats the purpose of multiple browsers.

From Windows 3 up to 7 i was happy to upgrade or get a new PC the day a new version hit the stores. Then it changed. I skipped 8 and 8.1 completely. For 10 i waited a good 1½ year and for 11 i wished i could've postponed getting a new PC once more. But with Win10 it was an upgrade of the Win7 PC, so yeah, i realy needed a new one now. The old PC collapsed a week before i planned the new PC.

Office 365 is not workable anymore for me anyway, as for various volunteer projects that can not pay for my subscription i would need just a small part of the home and a small part of the business version. And hey, i payed for storage on my PC, why do i have to store in a Cloud that doesn't provide enough storage space i need? I need an office suite for multiple accounts, just as i need my bookmarks.

I found 2 simple tricks to still have a local Admin (and limited user) account, not using a MS account. And that might be a reason not to wait to long to get Win11. MS did "fix" other methodes to create a local admin account as first account created on a new PC. That aside, like Win10 when it came out, 11 works as a rough product that has been released before finishing touches could be made.

Microsoft has become as big a phisher as Apple, Google and Samsung. No criminal phisher can match even 1% of what those companies can get away with. Even when using a local account in stead of a MS account. Just yesterday we had a new "privacy statement" update in Edge. What "privacy"? Information theft update for cookies we can't decline.

This video says it best i think:
Video removed by Bumbefly. Although indeed the content depicts very well what i experienced with Windows 11, the title screams louder then my words about the other companies who act the same......

(not a change to Steam, but to MS Edge - ALL PREVIEW VERSIONS)

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/xbox-cloud-gaming-in-microsoft-edge-with-steam-deck-43dd011b-0ce8-4810-8302-965be6d53296

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/th77w9/microsoft_edge_beta_the_browser_for_xbox_cloud/