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  • Maybe it's old enough that some people never had to deal with it, but before Steam, being able to play a game on a different version of Windows than what it came out for was a crapshoot. Playing on Linux was even MORE of a crapshoot. I remember when I got Team Fortress running on Linux for the first time (at like 10 FPS) and was ecstatic.

    Linux gaming existed before steam, but Steam (and Valve) brought Linux gaming to the masses.

  • I could probably dump discord, but there's just no alternative to Steam. It succeeded, where literally every other publisher failed, to unify game distribution on the PC. Even if valve made steam itself FOSS and let anyone clone it, there's no chance in hell they'll get anyone but the most indi of studios to launch anything on it, let alone exclusively.

    Of all the proprietary codebases and their companies, Steam and Valve are the only ones I respect.

    (Also Slack, but I'm forced to use that for work)