Why did Valve actually make the Steam Deck? Why did they make SteamOS? It's pretty simple: they care about keeping the PC ecosystem open. My second channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnuvP0behGQMR5Wd3l80IWg Support the Show * Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelinuxgamer/ * BTC: 1DckZocn7pA7MDzKSu98UbS4TjocfK633x * ETH: 0x1C0FDD6d450679359876a077A15DFd0537E8C2D8 * Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/official-linux-gamer * Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxGamer/ * Humble: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/?partner=thelinuxgamer * null * Amazon affiliate: https://amzn.to/3iYb4gd You can find me on these socials: * Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheLinuxGamer:f * I am an Odysee partner * Twitter: https://twitter.com/gardiner_bryant * Mastodon: https://social.librem.one/@gbryant Comment Section Rules 1. Be kind to each other. 2. Don't swear, don't use racial slurs (you will be automodded) 3. I reserve the right to permanently ban habitually abusive commenters and I don't apologize. Banned users /won't/ be notified. If you can't cope with having rules, you're welcome to not leave a comment. You can email me at gardiner-at-heavyelement-dot-io What are your machines specs? Office Rig: * AMD Ryzen 7 1800x * MSI Pro Series X370 SLI PLUS * AMD RX VEGA 64 * GSkill Ripjaw V DDR4 8GB x4 (32 GB) * Fractal Design Define R9 Case * Manjaro GNOME Living Room Gaming Rig: * ASUS X99-E-10G WS * Intel Core i7-6900K @ 3.2GHz * NVidia Titan X (Pascal) * DDR4 Corsair Vengeance RGB 8GB x8 (64GB) Backup Rig * System76 Thelio Minor * AMD Ryzen 5 3400G * DDR4 16GB RAM * Zotac Nvidia GTX 970 4GB Home Server: * ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 * AMD FX 6300 at 3.5 GHz * Nvidia GTX 750 1GB * DDR3 20 GB RAM Funky Choon (a.k.a. The Linux Gamer Theme Song) by Brothers Nylon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njrIkXpB7oU This Work is protected under the Authoral Integrity License (AIL): https://github.com/heavyelement/ail/ 00:00 - The Origins of Valve Software 00:54 - Much ado about Microsoft 01:30 - Porting Left4Dead2 to Linux 02:07 - Lighting a fire under Microsoft Executives 02:34 - Steam For Linux 03:48 - Native Linux games 04:54 - SteamOS 05:21 - The Steam Machine Disaster 06:05 - The debut of Proton 07:10 - A little history on the "Palmtop" 08:41 - Valve's Hardware Endeavors 09:47 - And we arrive at the Steam Deck 10:47 - The plan for the Steam Deck 11:51 - The REAL reason Valve made the Steam Deck #Valve #SteamDeck #Linux