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>>evolve+(OP)
Everything valve doing for linux is making such a huge impact.

The HL3 memes don't even seem fair to use anymore. I don't even want to un-seriously make joke fun of them at this point. They are just genuinely doing so much for the community.

>>adverb+H53
Valve is one of the few companies regularly seen on HN where the headline is something like "[company] is secretly doing something really great" as opposed to "[company] is secretly doing something evil"

>>levoca+Yb3
People complain about the gambling/loot box stuff, and yeah there's legit ethical concerns there.

But overall Valve just seems straightforwardly less shitty towards the consumer than other major companies in their space, by a long shot.

>>Tulliu+2d3
Don't forget GoG which is an alternative game store with a strong anti-DRM stance (all the games there are DRM free).

>>enedil+cg4
Steam makes installing windows games easy. With GoG i would need to setup wine myself.

>>5d4140+Cy4
^ The essence of why we're doomed.

>>M95D+NZ4
Because Steam gives customers useful features that are good? GoG should also directly support Linux.

>>LinXit+i65
> GoG should also directly support Linux.

GOG is an online shop. It shouldn't support anything but browsers, bank cards and download managers.

>>M95D+X85
The charitable interpretation here is that GOG should ship linux binaries, whether native or wine-wrapped installers.

This would be a perfectly reasonable ask despite GOG being a webshop that only supports browsers.