You know, for a long time I thought the argument that choosing a distro was s big blocker for people was dumb, and people should just try things like I did. As I got older, though, I recognized that if I wanted someone to actually make the change, it’s better to have a recommendation for them. The problem often with that though is they have to trust me exclusively, they don’t have the relationship with Debian or Fedora or whatever, that doesn’t mean anything to them. It’s a “devil you know is better than the one you don’t” situation. Sure, Windows sucks, but they don’t know if the alternative is better. They have to take my word on it and take the plunge.

Valve, though. They know and trust Valve. Everybody’s got Steam and generally Valve has treated us well. I probably won’t use SteamOS myself outside of my Deck, but I am INCREDIBLY excited to have a distro to recommend that gets over that trust hurdle. And even if SteamOS isn’t a perfect fit for them, it gets your foot in the door and the next distro hop is that much less scary.

I have been very happy with the work Valve’s put into Linux. It benefits us all. Gaming was always one of the biggest hurdles and it’s effectively a non-issue now thanks to Proton. Legitimately one of the few bright spots in a sea of shit lately. Yes Gaben has 6 yachts and they’re still a profit driven corp and whatnot, but in this space they are doing a great job.

Ho ho hooooooooo