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[–] hoppolito@mander.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And I generally agreed with you above.

But from my reading you just spent 9 paragraphs simply to restate

you need to run the steam client to initiate the original download in the first place, and that’s definitely a difference in quality of life

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Well that, how that is not reliable and requires specific knowledge to do, how most people don't know how to do it because it's not at all advertised and how all that is an anti-feature negative to customers and which doesn't at all need to be there.

But yeah, I definitelly tend to ramble on and on (and on, and on, and on ...).