&gt; Honestly the frequency with which companies are only offering stub installers bothers me.<p>In general, I <i>heartily</i> agree with you. However, because Steam&#x27;s <i>primary</i> purpose is to download and install huge gobs of data from Valve&#x27;s servers, I feel that Valve&#x27;s decision to ship just a stub installer is totally justified.<p>MSFT&#x27;s stub Office installer, or Google&#x27;s stub Chrome installer? Inexcusable.<p>Edit: Ugh. I should caffeinate. Steam&#x27;s primary purpose is to let you play video games. However, the <i>way</i> it does that is by downloading gobs of data &amp; etc.