[gcb1]

steam for still sucks in the way requires full control of my box to games. i only run it in a vm or spare machine, limit the games i can use. if that box is any good, it will be very good for people with a minimum security concern for their main computers

[simoncion]

> steam for still sucks in the way requires full control of my box to games.

What? I run Steam as a non-Administrator user on Windows, and a non-root user on Linux. Would you elaborate on your objections?

[jamesgeck0]

The DirectX installer (and other dependencies) that most games want to run the first time they load requires admin access. A few games want to run the installer every time the game runs if the user isn't running as an admin. You can skip dependency installation sometimes, but other times games will crash until you take care of it.