u/monkeyman512

For a secondary drive of game installs that makes perfect sense. It's an ideal use case. If you used it for an OS drive I am very surprised. What hardware was it used in?

They probably looked at how much you spent on games and decided it was worth it to keep you playing. lol

To add on top of other people's comments, SD cards should not be considered reliable. They are made from the cheapest bottom of the barrel NAND flash. For storing contents that you write once then read many times and can easily replace, they are fine. But you don't want it for an OS drive.

That sucks, but is understandable. I hope Valve can do something positive like buy the design from Dbrand then sell it themselves. Then Dbrand doesn't loose a bunch of money, Valve can protect their IP, and fans can buy the fun thing they want. Seems unlikely, but it would be cool.

Hollow Knight is great. I chill out with Vampire Survivors a lot.

Are you trying to say, "Don't buy a Xbox controller then flash it"? I can understand the decision to not do business with MS, but I assume most people already possess that controller and are trying make use of what they have.

This is not a critique, I just don't understand what you are intending to communicate.

Sure, your feelings make sense. But have you ever used MS Teams and MS SharePoint?

Feels like the more accurate name moving forward would be "SteamOS Hardware".

It's because we are all tired and something usually hurts. The thing that hurts and the reason it hurts changes, but "something hurts" is near constant state of being.

I think it is reasonable to assume Valve will leverage automation heavily. Why pay someone to update that list when a script could do it?

Thank you for linking that.

Was that in what was shared above and I missed it or was that said somewhere else? Could you share that if it is easily available?

The point was simply that Debian is not responsible for Ubuntu or PopOS, but they can still interact cooperatively. Downstream benefits from the work Upstream does and downstream can contribute upstream so everyone benefits.

I would be inclined to think Valve doesn't want the responsibility of making it a "broad" OS. More likely is there are other open source communities that are taking that on and Valve is willing to work with. Much like we have Debian -> Ubuntu -> PopOS.