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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

Steam is not perfect but far better than 90% of the outcomes we could have had. It helps they work on Proton/Wine, helping Linux community directly. They are the reason Linux gaming picked up steam (very punny, ik) since Ubuntu 16.04 + Wine made primary desktop Linux usage viable.