Waaaahhh they aren ' t giving away all of their most recent titles to me ! Why don ' t you just accept they are giving you free quality games instead of bitching about how much the average retail price is for them ? <| sep |> They can be the same thing . Depends on the person . <| sep |> I don ' t know if you play video games , but about 9095 % of Steam games . In order to get other mainstream programs to work Microsoft Office , Adobe Products , etc , you need to jump through a bunch of hoops , such as setting up a virtual machine , or using programs such as Wine short for Windows Emulator . These programs in of themselves are a pain to setup . You ' ll have to learn some terminal usage such as how to use apt . For example , say I wanted to install Apache 2 on my machine . I would need to dosudo aptget updatesudo aptget install Apache 2 Then , you need to make sure that all of the dependencies are up to date so it would be a good idea to dosudo aptget upgradeThat may not seem too bad , but say you want to install Java . To get the official version , you need to download the tar . gz . bz 2 file , and extract that with a series of commands , move it to the proper directory , possibly add it to your path , then you have it installed . My point is , other operating systems do all of that for you , which is why they aren ' t free . You pay for the automation and ease of use .