> There is an age-old axiom that 'free isn't free', and Linux quite literally embodies everything about that for me. The entire world runs on Linux and other F

> There is an age-old axiom that 'free isn't free', and Linux quite literally embodies everything about that for me. The entire world runs on Linux and other F/OSS software like Python, Ruby, GCC, Clang, MySQL, Spark, VSCode, etc etc. The programs you're talking about aren't the only kind of value out there. > When I can get native, commercial software for Linux; without interpreter layers such as WINE Valve has integrated their version of Wine (Proton) into Steam with great success. Wine isn't a bad option for the kind of GUI tools that tend not to be popular on Linux.