For me atleast steam is only ~900MiBs for disk space and ~500MiBs of memory while running in the background. I haven’t looked at the network traffic it generates recently but I am getting concerned with it because of the China-specific client requirements they made that I fear are or have already been ported into other regions.
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We’re comparing to Microsoft after all…and Valve is lightyears away from present Microsoft practices.
And DRM is decided by the publisher of the game. Everyone is free to publish their games with whatever copyright they want. Can’t blame others for developer/publisher choices.
Buying a game with Denuvo DRM and complaining about Steam “garbage”? That’s a joke!
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well considering all the stuff for ms store will sit in the background along with the xbox game client.
unless you have it disabled.
steam on the other hand can boot with your system. but can also be booted from the desktop.
so can be run as needed. it also doesnt leave servers and the likes running while its not running.
unlike the store and xbox clients.
See, this is my issue as well, especially with Tencent/China buying games studios left and right and since its proprietary, only a whitelist only network config will completely de-cruft/de-sh*t your setup. Apart from the usual DRM shenanigans happening.
All I am waiting for GOG is to finally officially support Linux even just at their client’s level. Give me that and I’ll leave my collection for GOG. But they’re a relatively smaller team so yeah, we cant have nice things because they still have to be profitable. Nevermind that steam has an even better pricing on my country.
I removed the Microsoft store and Xbox from my PC. I find that steam is fairly lightweight. If you already removed the ms store, then it doesn’t make a lot of sense to bring it back.
I find that Microsoft is very scummy and will do everything they can to keep you from removing Xbox and Microsoft store. Thus I recommend steam.
These are some features that keep me on steam and away from egs or Microsoft store
- cloud sync
- controller mapping + community layouts
- screenshots and community sharing
- constant sales and discounts
- good discovery algorithm for games
- generous refund policy
- support of Linux with proton
I don’t really see any point for them to support linux with their client. I don’t see them doing anything like valve is doing, as in making it easy to install compatibility tools or having their own linux runtime to run linux games forever. Better clients already exist for this on linux. Gog is still offering the best experience in the sense that you can just download the games and extract them on you system, then use steam or whatever other client you want, or just whatever version of wine you wish/need, to run them.
This also allows you to preserve different versions of games on your system forever, never really forcing you to accept changes that developers might make, or outside forces might force them to make, to their games over time.
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Thats true but I’d rather have them having a first class citizen kind of treatment on Linux users.
I guess Steam had a more mature mindset on this when microsoft threatened them with the UWP apps/Windows Store. If MS pushed hard to displace Steam, they needed the “insurance” of having a fallback platform amd maybe take a generation of players away from microsoft and into linux as a final F you.
I meam who knows if GOG will suddenly be and inexplicably become hostile to Linux? They do not have the commitment that Steam has.
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Currently, you can log into GoG from Lutris and download/install your games from there.
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yeah, I’ve been trying to get as much physical media as I can as it is very reassuring to be able to use that instead of relying on the internet or a game service. optical media is pretty crap but I just rip it so I can keep the disks in storage. I also have a bunch of cool boxes for decor now.
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