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		chupasaurus on Aug 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researcher banned on Valve's bug bounty program pu... You've missed "Install Steam somewhere inside separate user's home directory" to not dealing with UAC on each update. I moved to separate Wintendo box which is the best solution.

ChrisSD on Aug 22, 2019 [–]

As far as I'm aware, Steam makes its own folder writeable by everybody. Besides, you should get an error instead of the UAC if you're running as a non-admin account.

But yes, separate hardware is safer.

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