• Omega@discuss.online
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    6 days ago

    Valve doesn’t have much interest besides it working good enough, so we would need either china or EU to fund a group to do that for us

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      6 days ago

      Yes, currently Valve is mostly interesting in a base system that just runs Steam and games, not a general Linux desktop. Commercial Linux distributions are more about servers and professional workstations.

      We either need PC hardware manufacturers or public funding to push Linux desktop, since I don’t think that normal users would pay directly for a Linux system.

      PC hardware manufacturers however are more about selling the next device that constantly improving a system non-customers could also use for free, so I doubt they would commit to it fully, and instead use it for marketing.

      So all that is left is public funding.