Company that makes DRM is despicable.

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That you can do, but it's not a requirement for them. They don't care about it, same as they didn't care about Linux gaming all along, before Valve even decided to get involved. So I don't see anything behind the argument that Linux gaming market is shrinking because of anything they do.

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You can't require anything. The only case where you do have direct input is crowdfunding. And I always back only projects that promise Linux support.

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Quoting: GuestThen there is zero reason for developers to do the extra work of releasing for Linux when they can just release for Windows.

That has always been the argument for legacy publishers and there is no change in trend in this in any direction as far as I can tell. I.e. for years the argument was "why invest X money into Linux development and get Y profit, if you can invest same X in more Windows games and get Z > Y profit, simply because Windows user base is bigger".

This argument is easy to make for bean counters. They don't care about art reaching more people even if it can make them profit. They care about making more profit. It's also skewed by platform politics.

The only thing that affects such mentality is counter marketing. I.e. when someone significant comes to them and sells them small market for some kind of promise or such. Google sold them Stadia which was a lot smaller than total Linux gamers user base, and they bought it. Valve could pour more into marketing for the same purpose, but for whatever reason they don't.

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Quoting: GuestLinux gamers being okay with paying Windows developers for Windows games is "shrinking the market" for Linux games.

Not really, because same people pay for native Linux games. It's not a zero sum game. If anything, Linux gaming market is steadily growing, but slowly.

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Quoting: bekoI don't understand this comment at all.

The author said that he relies on Steam's NAT traversal service now, which made him pull the game from itch.io.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_traversal [External Link]

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A pity the author pulled itch.io release because of IPv4 NAT problems that he solves by using Steam-only service.

The game was quite fun.

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It can be useful, but it's not really a major game changer as you point out. What Valve could do, is to partner let's say with AMD and push for Linux to become a well supported and ubiquitous target in sold laptops / desktops by all major venodrs. Let's see Linux everywhere starting to displace Windows. That would be a major step forward.

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Quoting: drlambArcturus is the Instinct MI100 [External Link].

May be I mixed it up. I meant this one: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2020-October/055393.html [External Link]

It mentions "blockchain SKU" (it says it's Navi 10). Nothing like that came out so far.

It would be good for AMD to release such cards, so cryptominers will stop bugging gamers with inflated demand.

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Didn't AMD actually work on mining focused cards (Arcturus)? They should release something like that already, so miners would leave gaming cards alone.

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