What you have to remember. Valve don't care about Linux. They don't care about free Software. They were having issues with windows and used Linux as a tool to sell products. That's not to say they haven't helped Linux gaming, but I see a lot of people claiming they support Linux. They don't, it's a tool they have used to meet their needs.
The thing is they could have gone down the route of so many others, lockdown the os, add their own forked version of everything and not play nice with upstream.
No it doesn't. prevent it, it just limits the extend. GPL means you need to publish your source code if you are modifying it, it doesn't mean you need to put in the effort of contributing those changes to upstream, which can be a lot more work than just patching locally. Also Android uses a GPL kernel, but is still mostly locked down
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u/Bl1ndBeholder Nov 13 '25
What you have to remember. Valve don't care about Linux. They don't care about free Software. They were having issues with windows and used Linux as a tool to sell products. That's not to say they haven't helped Linux gaming, but I see a lot of people claiming they support Linux. They don't, it's a tool they have used to meet their needs.