I noticed Blender 2.79 is currently available on Steam.
Is the distribution of Blender 2.8 on Steam considered? It would especially be nice to have an “evergreen” version by asking for a 2.8 beta on Steam and benefitting from automatic updates.
IIRC the reason they haven’t done this is because they are still doing daily builds, and it can take most of a day to push an update out to users on Steam so there’s not much point to going to all the effort. Perhaps later on they’ll begin weekly beta releases.