Running a gaming PC without local admin rights is frustrating
I don't get this. You should need admin rights to install stuff on Windows but once a game is installed why do you need admin? You should need write permissions to a save file folder in your user directory and read and execute on the game files.
Valve have been doing this for ages, they should have worked out what permissions are needed when by now. Are they actually Linux Devs slumming it on Windows and refusing to do things the Windows way or just incompetent?
(This is why i game on console. I have 0 time for anything other than gaming on my gaming machines!)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
