> One of these companies needs to put their weight into getting OEMs to pre-install Linux. One option would be for Valve to buy an OEM. Many of them are not do

> One of these companies needs to put their weight into getting OEMs to pre-install Linux. One option would be for Valve to buy an OEM. Many of them are not doing very well and things are only going to get worse with Microsoft Surface. This would give Valve hardware talent for designing the Steam Box as well. The Steam Box could easily be just a set-top PC running Ubuntu. Game makers will no doubt see the appeal of that, and start porting games to run on the Steam Box, and therefore Linux.