In that sense, from what i read in that article, it does make sense why Valve may be pushing in to Linux land. We just have to wait and see.
I heard rumours they planned to work on Linux 3d drivers. That will be a great help for all even if some (like me) have no interest in Linux Steam.
True. There is one point in the article that needs to be stressed. Its games. Anyone that wants to get his/her platform to take off, its games. For the most part, the Linux community was a nerd base with academical people that wanted to create a open system that was secure and multiuser capable.
But as previous platform decline like the so-called home computers others took over. In the early 90s that was Windows. Since then people buy pc’s and play mainly games.
For one thing, there isn’t a lot of trust about Windows 8 which in turn could be a win to Linux. But it needs to be seen how it will play out eventually.
I know that i will get criticism about gaming in general and how there are not essential, but the fact is that gaming drives sales and ultimately and os as a platform.
But, like it is always, this was a blog post and i am not sure if thats really the official thinking.
I couldn’t agree more with you. Games are essential in order to finally beat microsoft on the desktop 
Anyone who says otherwise is denying reality. I really hope that valve will succed with native Linux steam. Hoepfully it will also force nvidia and ati at some point to support linux better and maybe intel to finally produce some powerfull GPUs
On 2012-07-27 05:36, JoergJaeger wrote:
> I know that i will get criticism about gaming in general and how there
> are not essential, but the fact is that gaming drives sales and
> ultimately and os as a platform.
I’m convinced that the development of games in the original IBM PC was what pushed PC hardware
to the current heights. Why else would fast graphics be needed, to just browse pages of 123
faster? 
The rest is history.
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This was the case with Windows Vista, but Linux still didn’t make much of a dent in Microsoft’s market share. Windows 7 has largely reversed this direction and people are, I suspect, going to stay comfortably with Windows 7 and see what comes next after 8.
Now if they flub Windows 8+1 then Linux may have a chance to make some headway because of it and eliminating the games excuse would be a big help at this time.
But Valve didn’t announce it’s steam for linux plans at that time and that changes a lot IMHO.
FTA:
“We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.
Does he mean like Kinect? Call me out of touch but does Linux have something like that?
Then too IMO this is too little too late due to the Secure Boot that MSFT is forcing down everyone’s throat. Yes I know W8 is locked in only on ARM chips & one can disable it in x86 systems.
I personally wonder how many would do that?
“The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don’t realize
how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior."
BAM…Yes Gabe, some of us do.
Left for Dead has been ported.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/08/valves-optimizations-make-linux-port-
of-l4d2-outperform-windows-version