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Steam.
I fuckin' hated it and even the idea when it was new. I liked updates and being able to download my games (even though I just had dial-up at the time; it was slow, but at least I could get any game and not just what was available at the local EB). I didn't like the idea of not having it stored off-site, though. I didn't like the interface or having to run an extra thing. I especially didn't like not being able to use the online gaming services I had been using for years because they shut down WON.
But now I would be lost without it.
The thing I like most about Steam is that games under Linux just work, for the most part. I don't play AAA games online multiplayer which is, I believe, where that falls down, but other than that it really is pretty seamless
This, my dad refuses to download proton or lutris and prefers to use wine baseline, and he has been waiting for months now for his game to be playable again, meanwhile I'm over here installing games right and left and just playing them, even newly released games, it just works (most of the time)