A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding OP’s question and just suggesting places that offer free games.

OP is asking if there’s any not shady way to get a game that’s offered for free on Steam without DRM other than using the Steam client.

If the game is only available through Steam then unfortunately the answer is no. Depending on the nature of your objection to the Steam client there are some possible courses of action other than going somewhere sketchy though.

You could install it, download the game, copy it from the Steam install location, then uninstall Steam.

Alternatively keep a sandboxed Steam client installed in a VM to download the game which you extract from the VM.

Another option might be to just ask someone you know that does use Steam to download the game and send it to you.

Were you intentionally trying to provide an example of what OP was taking about?

No disagreement at all there.

Falling back to insults when you can’t provide a source isn’t terribly convincing.

I can at least provide examples of them stating directly the opposite.

I use Adobe Premiere for editing, and one of the many fun ways that Adobe is kind of ass is that it just doesn’t work on Linux.

• Luke, “My Linux Curse is NOT Over… But It’s Getting BETTER - Pt.2 Linux 30 Day Challenge 2026”, emphasis mine

Adobe is very clearly the party being blamed here, not linux.

Also:

The Proton compatibility layer has made incredible progress. Even actually during our last couple of months, it’s improved a lot. But it can’t do anything about developers who block their games on Linux.

From “I Can’t Go Back To Windows”, again emphasis mine. Again very clearly laying the blame at the developers of the incompatible software.

Presumably you can point me to a specific video, since you seem so completely sure of it. I’m not scrubbing through potentially hours of footage to try to find something that I don’t think exists.

As for your suggestion that he just reviews what he’s paid to do, sure, that seems plausible. I’m not trying to argue that it’s an impartial channel and people should be watching him. You certainly don’t need to defend a decision to not watch it.

If a user needs Photoshop in their workflow then Linux isn’t an option for them. That is a problem with Linux, from a user perspective.

Who’s at fault for that problem is a different question, and I’d be surprised if LTT ever say that Linux is to blame.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

There is absolutely nothing in the article to indicate the family’s political leanings or how they voted.

Having working production database config and credentials in your local .env, as appears to be the case here, is equally wild, and basically begging for something like this to happen.

She has also been around for a long time at this point, building more fans all the while. Debuted in 2007.

I stopped buying Campbell’s or any of its subsidiary brands a few years ago when they both raised prices and reduced the size of the can.

They were underhanded about it too because they made the cans slightly taller so it wasn’t obvious that they had less volume.

I agree that 12 years isn’t “long past” the lifespan if a computer, but that’s also an aggressive and very implausible worst case scenario.

The very smart people working on their architecture and chip design are very much not the same people who are working on their desktop software.

Not if they’re referencing a specific 650 million. North America has about that many people but punches well above its weight in power usage per capita.

Sounds like she did and the city just ignored it.

I love how I’m being promoted to use AI on an article about the excessive resource use of AI.

Oh! That’s cool then. 580 is the last version that supports Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta, latest is 595. But yeah there were still releases in the 580 driver branch as recently as last month. So that’s cool.

Soon? Support for Kepler was dropped years ago. Driver version 470 is the last one that supports the 700 series.

Several years ago I was looking to set up a media server and initially grabbed Plex because I’d heard so much good about it at the time. The moment it asked me to create an account with Plex during setup and I discovered this wasn’t optional I immediately uninstalled it.

I remain baffled that anyone was okay with needing an externally managed account in order to use software running entirely on their own hardware, let alone the litany of additional enshittification that has happened since.

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