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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 69 points 23 hours ago (41 children)

I hope that SteamOS finds more of its way into desktop computers. Sure, I don't trust Valve; just like I don't trust any other corporation. But it's like fighting a big cancer with a smaller meta-cancer, if they hurt Windows/Microsoft I'm happy.

Plus its current relationship with GNU/Linux is symbiotic.

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (38 children)

Why is steam/valve bad?

They are a privately owned company with 100% focus on customer service and sustainably.

Yeah they charge like 10% of profit for the games on there, and more if you make it big. To be on the only platform where people actually shop for PC games...

Nobody has ever given me a real problem with Steam where some other company isn't already doing significantly worse shit in comparison.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

gambling (both lootboxes and the skin site kind), big fees

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How would steam crack down on gambling sites they don't own and trades they don't know are linked to those sites?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 13 hours ago

They could easily block the APIs the gambling sites are using to operate, but they've just sent some cease and desist letters to a few instead and have continued to take their cut of all trades.

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