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See this is why I love Valve. At least their hardware and the great support for open source software (Linux, Wine/Proton).
No, I don't agree with everything they do in regards to Steam. I know that it sucks, that you can't truly own your games nowadays, but at least Valve supports an OS that lets you truly own your hardware and have control over your software. And they do it, by providing open source software (Proton) with no strings attached (free software license) that lets you play games on this exact FOSS OS.
But you can truly own steam games. It's up to the developer whether to enable DRM. You can distribute a game through steam and it can still be launchable without steam running. Which means you can also save it to whatever backup medium you like.
I'm not talking about DRM, but about Steam's terms of service. Technically you only purchase a license to play the game, which can be taken away by Valve at any time. You don't really own your copy of the game, as you would with physical media.