Hey, good for them.

To be absolutely clear, I want to be on Linux full time. I'd love to dump Windows altogether.

But I am an adult with actual shit to do, so working most of the time isn't good enough.

I have zero issues with corpos contributing to open source stuff. And I have zero issues with open source projects having for-profit offshoots. Blender works. Home Assistant works. SteamOS... mostly works, on its very narrow band of specifically selected hardware.

By all means, have Valve keep pumping money into the ecosystem. I'm all for it.

But yeah, the community is so weirdly out of touch and in so much denial about the obvious, ongoing support gaps having been fully resolved. Installing a OS on a clean drive and checking that most of your Steam library works isn't even close to the level of reliability you need for mainstream use on desktop. Microsoft pushed what? Two bad updates that broke systems in the past six months? And they are out there making public commitments to "regain trust" while tech journalists talk about their unacceptable performance and inevitable demise.

If I judged Linux by that yardstick I would have nuked my Linux installs ages ago. If we want it to become a mainstream concern we need to understand why it isn't and what needs to happen to get it there.