nightcraw1er.488: The one major thing I note from your post however is steam/valves involvement. That worries me. So often we see companies being involved and then virtually taking over or moving things in a direction more beneficial to themselves. The cynic in me looks at what you have posted and sees valves attempts to create a steam platform, I.e. complete os/client layer, possibly even all ready for some sort of streaming setup. I am sure they have looked at stadia and such like and see the way tv/film streaming are going. Wouldn’t surprise me if this was their version. Hopefully I am wrong...
So far Valve have actually been very open with most of their various Linux projects, and what they've done has mostly benefitted the Linux ecosystem as a whole. Things like their work on the kernel and the open source graphics drivers, enhancements to Mesa, Proton & the improvements to Wine resulting from that, their funding of development of DXVK/D9VK and FAudio as open-source projects, various debugging tools etc.
phaolo: I know that Linux is getting better, but it's still far from ideal in my eyes.
And Gog isn't even supporting it in a decent way (Galaxy, anyone?).
It'll never be perfect, but then again Windows is far from perfect too & that never will be either. The only way for things to get better is for more people to switch over and give companies more incentive to support Linux - which is happening, albeit slowly, and things are much better now on Linux than they were even just a couple of years ago.
But yes, GOG aren't doing as much as they really should be. I don't particularly care for the Galaxy client myself, but there are many other that do - plus the lack of a Linux version of the Galaxy client is directly responsible for us not getting the Linux versions of many games here, which is my main concern.
direspirefirewire: Thanks for recommending Linux Mint, adamhm. Yeah I'm an old stick in the mud for sticking to Win 7. I bought a Win 10 laptop for work but I'm just not feeling it. I did try installing Ubuntu once more than 5 years back iirc but I had trouble finding software and games. Probably didn't try hard enough. I think with Windows 7 support ending it's time to try Linux again
I've tried Ubuntu several times before but never got along with it. Mint has a much nicer feel to it and a better default setup plus a lot of general usability improvements, making it work a lot better "out of the box" even though it's based on Ubuntu.
