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all valve games are linux native, as are lots of steam releases

The point is about the large majority that runs on top of Proton.

There are tens of thousands of titles on Steam, developed since 2004. It's going to be a while before the majority of the catalogue is Linux native.

You mean all the games that aren't Valve games? How is Valve supposed to create native Linux ports for them?

Like other stores, put them into the contract.

All modern games developed by Valve support Linux natively. They don't have much control over what other companies do.

Yes they do, put requirements on steam like any console vendor.

Feels like you're moving the goalposts. You said:

> The day they actually support native Linux games

They do, and have for a long time now, for nearly all of their own releases. There's not much more they can do than that; they don't control what platforms other companies want to port to.

Valve, the store owner, not Valve the game studio.

Sorry, but are you saying you believe Valve is responsible for the development of every game on their store? In case you're just genuinely unaware, games are developed by a variety of people and studios completely separately from Valve.

Did I miss something, don't they own the Steam Store, SteamDeck and dictate the rules what gets sold there?

Yes, and they opt to sell video games from most anyone who opts in to their store. Fundamentally, that is their business. What you're asking of them is beyond unreasonable because it fundamentally goes against what they do and it would immediately kill their business in its entirety if they stopped selling 99% of games. Then we wouldn't even get Proton and Linux would be truly dead for gaming.

What you're asking of them is akin to complaining that Apple sells tech instead of dishwashers when fundamentally that's so far from what they do that it's absurd, not to mention that if they suddenly stopped selling all tech their business would obviously die. I feel a bit foolish for even entertaining this because what you propose is so obviously outlandish to me that I'm about 85% sure you're just messing around to get a rise out of people.

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