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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
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It's funny because before Steam Windows gaming was basically the same shit. Even if you bought the original game and your PC met the required specs, there were no guarantees that it would run. And you still needed to search for patches, libraries, and codecs through the internet. Even nowadays there are still guides on how to run non-steam games like Fate/Stay Night on Windows that really resembles trickier Linux games. 

Luckily Steam allows the vendors to ship an install script just like the AUR which gets all the dependencies for you.
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But on Windows I double click the ~~malware~~ patch instead of opening a scary terminal