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I find the Steam client does it's job of launching games particularly well. It even makes it pretty straightforward to buy them, and keeps them up to date in the background.

I have noticed that they don't screw with the UI every 2 months (Spotify et al.) and stick with what works. That seems to be a negative these days though.




> I find the Steam client does it's job of launching games particularly well.

The client is really heavy, and if it's out of date, you're in for a long wait before being able to launch a game.

>It even makes it pretty straightforward to buy them,

Yeah, it opens the webpage inside the app. Any browser would do the same.

> and keeps them up to date in the background.

The steam client has no such feature: it only updates games IN THE FOREGROUND. There's no service or deamon that does anything in the background.




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