@newt >They also don't finance GNOME or GNU.
The FSF does finance GNU - they offer hosting for GNU software, savannah (https://savannah.gnu.org/), pay for the gnu domains, handle GNU's licenses and enforcement and many other things.

>Valve is basically the only one really interested in Linux becoming a widespread desktop platform.
Valve doesn't give a shit about Linux.

Valve knows that microsoft eventually is going to make it that the only software that can be installed on windows is via their "windows store" and valve simply doesn't want to have to give them a cut of their profits.

Valve just looked around and found WINE and realized that it already ran much of the proprietary games that they offer, except not that great performance and then found a programmer than was writing a DX to vulkan translation layer and worked out that if such was combined to make WINE+DXVK+fsync/esync, proprietary games would run with good performance and so then hired the bare minimum of programmers to pull that off.

The versions of systemd/Linux valve has released has only been targeted to "game consoles" (original "steamos") and a portable game handheld ("steam os") and also to other handhelds - they haven't made a release yet that is intended for general desktop usage.


GNU/Linux was already suitable for usage on a desktop ever since 1995 or so.

>Everyone else is borderline useless.
It's a massive claim to say that the organization that made GNU/Linux possible and continues to support GNU, which everything depends on is "borderline useless".