Steaming Pile

Going to be honest: I'm tired of Steam.

I have way too many games in Steam.  Six hundred fifty nine.  That's way too many.  I don't play 90+% of them.  Waste of time, waste of money.  The fun part is that many of the ones I actually play have some sort of Free software version available to use with the data files, turning Steam into just data delivery for programs that actually run natively.

For Classic Doom and Heretic/Hexen, I have gzdoom.  Quakespasm runs Quake 1 while Yamagi is for Quake II.  EDuke32 runs Duke Nukem 3d as well as the newer Ion Fury.  OpenMW is a full re-implementation of Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, VoidSW is for classic Shadow Warrior, still have a build of the taken-down re3/reVC for GTA3 and GTA: Vice City, and so on.  I have a local installation of DOSBox for DOS games and emulators for games that contain (directly or indirectly, as one can extract some files) classic console and arcade game ROMs.

Maybe there are ultimately a few games I would care to run in Steam, but honestly, I'd rather decouple them from Steam by stripping its DRM to run natively.   I have a few games on GOG that aren't filled with DRM, but not so many that I want to play.

So maybe I should just use Steam to download things, not to play them.  It would be a much better use of that bloated thing. Heck, there's even a standalone terminal Steam executable Valve made that downloads things; maybe I should just use that.