> just copy the steam apps folder from one PC to another

Ironically, in 2023, this still isn’t a solved problem.

I have a MacBook and a Linux PC at home, my work laptop is under Windows and I have a Steam deck my phone is an iPhone (but an Android wouldn’t change anything).

Let’s be honest : sharing a file between those computers is never easy. I still manage to do it but it’s only because I’m "good" at computers.

I’d be totally unable to explain to my mother on the phone how to exchange a file between multiple computers. This adventure always prematurely ends with one or multiple emails to herself.

And to be honest it’s a shame in 2023. Maybe 15 years ago, we had some standard file transfer protocol via Bluetooth which maybe was flaky but was kinda universal and which could have been improved, for example by allowing some standard upgrade over Wi-Fi for compatible devices.

For this I blame Apple who decided to go alone on this path, and the Android stupid UX which somehow decided that disabling Bluetooth and NFC was so useful that you needed to be able to do it with one tap while people didn’t even knew what Bluetooth and NFC meant just because they learnt somewhere that it saved battery juice (spoiler : it hardly saved anything).

tl:dr; long rant about file transfers and the shameful state of standard protocols, sorry I needed to vent my decade long frustration :)

TBH it’s rather easy now if everyone is using Windows and or have OneDrive installed right click on any file and click share with onedrive.

Other than that you need to teach people how to share via the local network which isn’t terrible but requires some basic knowledge to set it up initially.

But overall yes the experience of sharing files between one computer and another can be terrible especially if you don’t want to drastically decrease their security posture.