Wandering Adventure Party

@atomicpoet From a practical point of view, Steam’s investment in Linux is improving the entire ecosystem. A non-steam Linux host runs games better because of it. Linux phones can run x86 software because of their investment. DarwinOS is just a “technically open source” core which has little practical impact.

Is it all part of a strategy? Sure it is. But it’s still having a net positive impact. Their strategy aligns with the interests our interests.

@atomicpoet The comparison is pretty ugly. Apple focused on closed ecosystems and pushing against digital rights. It was and is part of their core DNS. Valve hardware is actually pretty open, and it’s one of its big selling points. Steam itself is proprietary and closed, but everything around it isn’t. Apple caused strong rejection in the same crowd that actually kinda likes Valve hardware.