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It's not about steam machines, it's about the game catalogue. Steam has 3000+ titles on Linux and the Steam runtime takes away a lot of the pain of developing for Linux.

Valve's announcement that games ran faster on SteamOS had an almost immediate response: > “A few weeks after this post went out, some very senior developers from Microsoft came by …

Roughly 1/3 of the steam library runs on Linux. Valve continues to update SteamOS, and they are still heavily involved in creating Linux drivers and middleware. Every week new game…

Yes! Developers are people too..

The biggest issue is the distribution. One of the devs of the Minecraft Windows 10 edition said that it would be trivial to port that to desktop Linux but they would have to set up…

Programming languages or platforms aren't the issue. Software packaging and distribution is. Porting is easy. Getting your software to users is hard. Look at the Minecraft pocket e…

One of the big issues with their attempt was ~0 support or documentation for porting existing applications. Everything was focused around building an Ubuntu app from scratch using …

With the flatpack integration, Builder really has the potential to become the Xcode for Linux. I hope that Ubuntu starts to support Builder. Ubuntu tried something similar with qtc…