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I think worldwide support/adaption of the Steam Machines will basically make it so GPU manufacturers have really no choice but to write amazing Linux drivers. If they don't then they'll more than likely be chosen less by companies producing (yearly?) Steam Machines.

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Unless they only write good custom drivers for hardware they know will be used in Steam machines. Don't know of any reason why they'd do that, though... I'm hopeful :)

Finally. The year of the Linux desktop is upon us!

There won't be "known hardware" for steam machines[0]. They will allow AMD and Nvidia video cards with no specifics about which cards will be allowed.

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

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