GOG's weird position on Linux users quacks like a duck in my opinion.

The quotes have a real Tim Sweeney vibe to them.

Except when you go into the eshop and have to scroll down pages of shovelware to find anything decent

Some time ago I worked on a tool [1] to do just that, unsure if it would still work. I also got lost between feature development and fixes in my git branches at the time, and never had time to finish this. Looks like upstream [2] became active again and merged some of my improvements, unsure if it works with the trove. I was also just made aware of this new project, dedicated to that issue [3]. I'd advise someone to start looking at the last one.

I don't usually do this, but I don't think it is against the TOS, so here is my HB referral link [4] Here's also a 20% discount on the humble store for 30 days for one lucky person who isn't a subscriber [5]

[1] https://github.com/MayeulC/hb-downloader/tree/next-next

[2] https://github.com/talonius/hb-downloader

[3] https://gitlab.com/silver_rust/trove_downloader/

[4] https://www.humblebundle.com/subscription?refc=Y9dywp

[5] https://www.humblebundle.com/subscription/activate-discount?...

If you pick "exit" it exits. If you click the close button, it just closes the window but keeps running. You can also set in settings not to run on system startup. Mac has the same behavior.

Having to wait for Steam to open and log you in every time you want to launch a game sucks, plus keeping it open in the background lets you keep games up-to-date, lets you use the chatroom features, and some other stuff.

The good thing about Steam, which makes it good software in my opinion, is that you can easily customize it and turn features off, and nothing really gets forced down your throat. It's almost like Valve feels they actually have to make an effort to keep you as a customer. Compare that to anything from the tech giants.