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3. Application Tips & Troubleshoot
You should use Deluge. Enter Deluge, go to Edit in status bar, Preferences. In Interfaces, Tick "Enable system tray icon", "Minimize to tray on close" & "Start in tray" checkmark. This will grant Deluge's Background Apps support.
Other apps like Fragments, qBittorrent & Transmission don't support that. They either believe that Gnome does not support that functionality (in their sense, system tray, which is true) & Fragments developer ideologically believes that Background apps should not be endorsed by Fragments because of potential unnoticed constant network usage for countries where VPN is needed for illegal stuff. Background app support was a problem before, but now it's not since Gnome implemented it. Ideally, apps would use that native protocol, but anything that has system tray support will work well with it (minus the context menu options & app indicator).
My opinion is that lack of that functionality is harming the torrent community & torrents itself, because of much higher chance of quitting the app after downloading torrent, where seeding did not perform fully or at all. Seeding is the operation which should be persistent, not interrupted. While you can leave the app in the workspace all the time, it is very impractical & it gets in your way, as opposed to Gnome's philosophy of getting out of your way. Why should you have a non-interacting working app in a workspace when you can access it in the Background Apps panel?
This is a bug of Steam app, which must be solved directly upstream by Valve.
As an alternative solution, use Cartridges app, which sorts all your games from various sources in a nice launcher. It has an available search function built into Gnome, so you can search for your game & launch it quickly, without entering the launcher & without having game shortcuts. This makes separation between normal/work apps & gaming apps better for less cluttering experience.
This is a bug of Steam app, which must be solved directly upstream by Valve.
To solve this issue yourself, go to Steam settings, Downloads, untick "Enable Shader Pre-Caching".
This won't affect the performance of the games since GPU driver has native support for it.
I don't know why this default is not changed either, but you can solve this by going into game Properties, Compatibility & ticking "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool". Re-download the game.
GPU Screen Recorder offers the best recording performance compared to other software on Linux. As it name says, it uses GPU more efficiently than others, even better than OBS. Developer says that performance is similar to Nvidia's Shadowplay without overlay on Windows. It's out-of-the-box experience is set without need for preference changes, unlike OBS. UI is simple, even if it does not use Adwaita design.
If GPU Screen Recorder does not work for your hardware or you want more functionality, than you have to rely on other software like OBS, Kooha or built-in Gnome screencast (sorted by performance).
My recommendation is to always delete the data when uninstalling, because this will assure that all app content is properly deleted.
Only in some rare cases, when you want to backup some important data, you can keep the data on uninstall & backup it wherever you want.
If you kept the data that you want to delete now, open Warehouse, User Data in left-pane, Leftover Data, than select which data you want to remove.