Valve need to encourage game devs from a console and windows centric world to develop for the SteamEngine platform. PIX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIX_%28Mic

Valve need to encourage game devs from a console and windows centric world to develop for the SteamEngine platform. PIX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIX_%28Microsoft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIX_%28Microsoft%29) is one of the tools these developers are used to dealing with. So having a Linux equivalent is pretty valuable.