Truth. It low-key feels like there's an audience of gamers that think Valve is trying to gouge them or something. As if they don't know how much work valve company has put in to making games as affordable as possible.

Wait until they learn how much resource Valve put into Waydroid/Lepton, FEX and Proton, and then just gave away to the world completely gratis, as open source. In a world where our hardware has always been subsidized by whatever platform company was trying to wall us into the garden, we need to have honest and frank conversations about supply chain dynamics.

That often isn't possible with iPad folks, and I'm beginning to think my Steam account is older than some of the people flinging you downvotes out here.

agreed personally I'd pay extra to avoid all the failure modes a custom os brings I've had quests brick them selves for no reason other then some weird software problem I'd much rather have a dumb wired headset then one that runs a bloated buggy install of linux or android all of the once in a decade edge case of maaaybe playing a game on it when my pc's down