Steam is proprietary, closed-source, has a single for-profit vendor, uses closed communication protocols (e.g. for Friends) preventing an open reimplementation, and there&#x27;s no automated way of submitting new packages. Not to mention the scandals where it read through your browser history.<p>The download UI is nice, it does use plain http&#x2F;s for package delivery, and it has a large install base. But i definitely do not think it is the best package manager available on Windows.