Before opening the comments, I spent several seconds contemplating if I should mention this, or if people would think I was some pedantic nerd dickhead and downvote me to hell. Glad someone else already covered this.

I actually love the irony of this meme, as that's exactly what happened haha

Which, as an ex MacOS user, is a mindboggling fact it took this long.

Maybe this is the year for desktop Linux!

A stable ABI wouldn't hurt either though

But second place wasn't looking so saucy like the medal biting guy

[Relevant]

I've worked in server-side systems development for over a decade, in all sizes of company, and Linux has been ubiquitous on the server side for ages: it's simply the most problem free way of maximizing the hardware you have, not to mention cheaper (both upfront and TCO).

It's only on the desktop that it's not.

I don't even think Valve really care about Linux. At least not in the same way that Linux users care about Linux.

They just care about getting the costs of Steam Deck down, and don't want MS to go mental and pull the rug from under their business model.

I'm surprised by how much of my Steam library would work on the Deck, tbh. Out of nearly 1300 games, 407 are verified, and 931 are verified and playable. Be nice if you could stream the rest (either from your own PC or an external provider), but Geforce Now showed that was a minefield (I suspect due to exclusive streaming rights already being to sold to someone else) and publishers freaked the fuck out, despite it being none of their business where I run my purchased games.

I'm in this comment, and I'm okay with that.

It's the year of the Linux desktop, y'all! Woohooohooo! Yeah! Rock on!

Not really, it’s closer to 50/50