that’s only a tiny aspect of it, which is why i used the word “reductive” specifically there’s so much more internal plumbing that happened, mostly in the hard

that’s only a tiny aspect of it, which is why i used the word “reductive” specifically there’s so much more internal plumbing that happened, mostly in the hardware compatibility and device driver layer of the stack. i’ve been double clicking .exes using wine since 2008. i haven’t been able to use every gamepad under the sun on linux until valve funded device compatibility— not just “steam” or “steamos” or “steamdeck”— the upstream.