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    Valve made the right decision (lemmy.world)
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    [–] lemmeee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Steam OS is easy, you can install literally any other distro.

    You can say the same about Windows. You can replace it with another OS, but that doesn't make it ethical.

    With regards to steam itself sadly we don’t live in a fairytale land where everything can be FOSS, there aren’t enough people motivated to work for free.

    If everyone had this attitude, there would be no Free Software at all. It took 40 years of hard work to get to where we are right now. I don't understand why you think that anyone has to work for free. Free Software is about freedom, not price. Itch.io is a store that has a Free Software client (and it's optional - you don't even have to use it). Valve could do the same, but they don't want to.

    Steam drm is great it makes publisher executives happy, while being extremely easy to crack.

    Yes, it's great that publishers can abuse us and that you need a proprietary app on your system and be logged in to an account to play singleplayer games. Thanks Valve.