>The whole idea that gaining administrator privileges through local escalation on a personal desktop is A Big Deal(TM) is silly.
I’ve seen steam on work computers. This isn’t limited to home desktop users by any stretch. People install steam because they don’t know it puts their work computers at risk.
You could argue that they shouldn’t have games on a work PC (some companies are a bit more lax and even play together) and an easy way to convince them to not do that is if you point out that Steam makes your system less secure by design.
I’ve seen steam on work computers. This isn’t limited to home desktop users by any stretch. People install steam because they don’t know it puts their work computers at risk.
You could argue that they shouldn’t have games on a work PC (some companies are a bit more lax and even play together) and an easy way to convince them to not do that is if you point out that Steam makes your system less secure by design.