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It's good that Steam has real competition now. For a long time it was the only game in town.

> All of them need their App Store running in order to play their games, so half the time my computer has 4-5 App Stores running in the background so I can play a single game

You can always close down the app-stores you don't need right now, but it's true they don't tend to give you the option to do this automatically.

> And they are all electron/qt webkit apps cause nobody builds apps anymore so each one consumes about 500mb of ram.

Agree, it would be nice if they were more lean. I'm seeing Origin taking up >200MB just sitting there.




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