> Valve decided to seek short term gains instead of thinking of a long term strategy by working with linux people to develop a nice ecosystem with libraries / d

> Valve decided to seek short term gains instead of thinking of a long term strategy by working with linux people to develop a nice ecosystem with libraries / drivers / app distribution. The part that you suggest they should do "instead" is exactly what they have been doing. As far as I know, every game by Valve is native on Linux, along with their source engine. > They could collaborate with Epic/Unity to facilitate linux builds Both Unreal Engine and Unity can export games for Linux. Both seem to be able to be run on Linux for development as well. What more is needed? > What if windows 11 is again a free upgrade and completely breaks wine? There is literally nothing Microsoft could do to break wine; it isn't their software. If Microsoft breaks backwards compatibility, no existing software for Windows would run on the new version. Linux + WINE would be the best option for running the majority of Windows software with the most recent updates (one could of course still use older versions of Windows instead, but that's a bad idea long term).