To be honest Steam was one of the best working monopolies out of the perspective of end-users. All you needed once to play games on Linux was Steam. Now we ha

To be honest Steam was one of the best working monopolies out of the perspective of end-users. All you needed once to play games on Linux was Steam. Now we have a few more relevant competing game stores and you need a whole bunch of awful launchers. I'm not saying the monopoly was a great thing for publishers though! That's a completely different story. But for end-users it was "the one and only app store for games you ever need". This was even better than mostly everything else regarding Linux software. Steam was once like Napster. You've just got everything there. No we have the same situation like with the dozens of movie streaming providers: If you want access to everything you need accounts everywhere. That's a clear step backwards for the consumers. If only something like Steam or movie streaming could be one globally distributed open service… Than such a "monopoly" would be the greatest thing for customers since Napster.