It’s not just you: Steam suddenly looks nice

In April, Valve revealed it was

— not just a fresh coat of paint, but also unifying the codebase between its Desktop, Big Picture Mode and Steam Deck interfaces, adding new features like a handy cloud notepad and pinnable panels in the in-game overlay, revamping its web browser, screenshot manager and notifications tabs, and adding hardware acceleration for Linux and Mac.

While much of that has been available…