I agree and hope that what comes after it is even better at supporting gaming on GNU/Linux and contributing to various libre and opensource projects like KDE and Proton and Mesa and such.
the SteamBox (with the Steam Controller) was the first attempt at a Linux based “console”.
they improved those designs greatly and re-released it as the SteamDeck. I challenge you to find a better PC than the SteamDeck for less than $400.
It would be a power move for Gabe to gift Steam to KDE or something when he retires.
I’m guessing whenever GabeN steps down it’s going to be the gaming equivalent to Tito dying
this is tagline material lol
Is it bad I like steam for what they’ve done for Linux gaming
Also piracy, indirectly
At least proton is open source
Linux is self-serving for them because it’s the only way to not have to pay a third-party for licensing the OS. Enjoying the side effects of that is still fine though.
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I don’t think this is true I think Gaben owns it
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not to give any capitalists too much credit but often privately held companies will make better decisions for consoomers than traded companies which are gonna have an array of varying levels of rabidly money hungry capitalists calling the shots. like as if epic games would ever put out something like steam families.
ZA/UM (Unified Marxist-Leninist) vs ZA/UM (Maoist Centre) vs ZA/UM (Workers Peasants Party)
We keep joking about PC Gamer being a communist magazine but holy shit we’ve straight up got links to marxist.org in the article
I know Gabe Newell is a dumbass libertarian type and that Valve is a weird workplace with… not the best conditions (or so I’ve heard) but at least steam isn’t doing all the bullshit all the other big platforms (that failed because they tried to do all sorts of bs) tried to do. Not talking about epic, but all those proprietary platforms, windows live or whatever it was for example.
Gonna be interesting to see what happens when he dies. Just full venture capital I imagine
It’d be really nice if Itch.io’s employees bought it out and turned it into a coop.
Everybody is defending Steam like it isn’t a nasty proprietary binary blob shit-stain on their Linux system to play their video games. Lefty gaming should become a scene totally divorced from the market, with extremely exclusive clubs of amateur developers, artists and writers bringing games back to their essence.
Something like itch.io but decentralized? Like an open source fediverse-style storefront?
