Yes, actually.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377

“We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well,” said Mr Newell.
“Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.”

That’s true, but unfortunately some of them were against it for all the usual incorrect reasons. :/

Yes, it is worth it to remember.

They naively expected publishers and developers to give a shit.

But after that failure they worked hard for years and contributed and donated to open source projects.
That allowed Linux to become a true competitor in gaming space with zero vendor lock-in.

Whatever their reasons were, the results are objectively positive for nearly everyone.

There’s really nothing new, it’s the same as it was on the Steam Deck.

If the devs are not assholes they can easily allow Proton, from what Valve said before often all it takes is literally one checkbox on their side.

Except this one even started shit.

Call me oldschool, but I like my games available when I want them, not held hostage behind a subscription fee.

You see, that’s the fun thing.

Android will still technically allow sideloading, they’ll just make it difficult and scary for average user, and annoying for devs.

Optimization? Did you mean to write monopolistic, anti-competitive, and unethical practices?

Because if there’s one thing Nvidia knows how to do, it’s to play dirty.

Tidal doesn’t even have anything over Spotify.
Their version of Spotify Connect barely works at the best of times, on my AV I couldn’t get it to work at all.

And Qobuz… isn’t even available in a bunch of countries.

For me, the only real alternative is piracy and setting up my own streaming.
But I’m too lazy for that, so with Spotify at least the artists get paid something, and I can be reasonably certain that whatever I want to listen to will actually be available.

Also, Bandcamp was sold a while ago and fired half their staff, so not sure about ethics here.

Well, you’ve spent 200h on it, so clearly you must enjoy it.

Nothing bad with enjoying a shallow game.

Yeah, I remember, now we still have Windows being vulnerable, but in addition we also have untested changes pushed automatically to paying customers.

Forced updates are great!

And they claim “zero vendor lock-in”.

Exporting your content from whatever weird format they’re using in the DB isn’t exactly making the switch easy.

Also, fun fact: Kagi owner believes only criminals want privacy and GDPR doesn’t apply to them, because they said so!

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html