You can clear Steam cache through the "Downloads" menu. You should clear the cache occasionally to keep the app running smoothly.
What Valve (and Codeweavers, Wine's dev team et al.) have done is nothing short of miraculous. In the article Ars themselves link re Steamboxes, the ending paragraph has this bit, which I find speaks ...
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