You don’t need to even have the launcher installed to claim the free EGS games. I usually claim them to support the developers.

Still, Steam does dominate a massive portion of the PC market.

Steam revenue in 2023: USD 8.5 bn.

Overall PC gaming revenue that year: 45 bn.

Steam is big but the biggest cash cows are Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft. Neither is on Steam.

Also, Microsoft uses their Windows monopoly to ship the Xbox Games store to almost every PC user.

If Steam had a dominating market position, the EU would have classified it as a gate keeper under the Digital Markets Act.

But it will come back at the next big update.

Not if the update is called Bazzite.

Ubuntu is the windows of linux

Way less successful, though.

It wasn’t for a while.

Citation needed.

I already provided one: https://lemmy.world/comment/21796829

Cannot read a German news article about German news? Your problem. I’m 100% correct.

Politician A sells out to MS

The previous administration did.

Migration back to Windows begins

Which the previous administration did do and the new administration did not reverse on desktops. Windows and MS Office remain in use.

Politician B says “hell no” (hyperbole) to Microsoft switch back

There was no “hell no”. They adopted a few FOSS tools on Windows. Windows and MS Office remain in use. I already provided a source from June 2025, so quite recent.

Politician B halts the migration

You clamed there was no Microsoft migration. You claimed that any sort of Migrosoft migration is garbage misinformation. You’re a blatant liar.

The meme about Valve/Steam “does nothing, keeps winning” is mostly true (I don’t think the average gamer knows about Valve’s contributions to FOSS).

Because of Fortnite EGS has a very big installed base. People added their friends on Epic because of Fortnite. And yet gamers buy other games on Steam instead. That may have something to do with the fact that the main page of EGS mainly promotes Epic’s own games, whereas Steam promotes third party games first.

“In May 2020, it was reported that the newly elected politicians in Munich, while not going back to the original plan of migrating to LiMux wholesale, will prefer Free Software for future endeavours.”

So you lied. You claimed that Munich said “Hell no” to Microsoft Migration but here you spell it out yourself: The politicians did sell out to Microsoft and only newly elected politicians partially reversed it.

They use Windows and MS Office on desktops to this day and use Linux on servers and some FOSS tools ON WINDOWS DESKTOPS.

I was right, you lied.

People who still use WinRAR kinda deserve that. Seriously. WinRAR in 2026? Like WTF.

Fuck their monopoly!

Interesting monopoly when the world’s biggest PC games – Minecraft, Roblox, and Fortnite – aren’t even on Steam.

You first

Are you afraid to provide any reference to your claim? Do you need extra time making up stuff?

“Die 43 000 städtischen Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter nutzen also mittlerweile wieder Word, Outlook und PowerPoint […] Einfacher sei die Software-Frage bei den Servern im städtischen Rechenzentrum zu beantworten. Zwar haben man durchaus auch Windows-Server, aber die meisten laufen mit Linux, so Gernhardt.” (29. Juni 2025) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-verwaltung-open-source-it-microsoft-li.3256886

So Linux on servers, Windows including MS Office on desktops. The migration to Linux on desktops was completely reversed.

So where is ““hell no!” (prob in German) and continued the Linux rollout”? Where has it been “garbage misinformation”? Where are the exact stats about opening tickets? After all, you claim “Linux users filling only 40% the number of tickets the Windows users did”. That’s pretty specific.

Citation Needed

File compression, for starters.

You can compress folders and entire file systems.

A dedicated installer is much easier to bring around.

For one game, maybe. For a bunch of games an automated backup that collects the entire library and save games is much more practical. There are several easy to use solutions, not to mention scripting if you want really fine grained control.

the DRM free part only matters if you keep a copy of the installer. Galaxy doesn’t do that.

Why would that be relevant on Linux? WINE/Proton virtual environments are portable.

Okay, in other words: I won’t be buying any more Steam games 🐳

So far this is only about one person and none of the ecosystem contributions to Mesa, SDL, Wine,…

Definitively better than nothing, though!

they have loads of patents that are hard to avoid

China doesn’t care about patents of outsiders.

Once these countries leave, they’ll never go back.

Look up LiMux and the massive Microsoft deal that followed.

HACK THE PLANET!

you seem to be looking to argue for the sake of arguing.

I provided backing to your point and now I’m looking to argue with you? Yeah, whatever…

I’m not sure why you are sharing that with me, personally. My comment was aimed at people who are complaining about the prices.

Are comments only allowed when one disagrees?