most of the economical and political power of gates and the company comes from having control and influence over the os: less people using windows, either because they migrate to apple, or linux, means they become less relevant.Īlso each year linux devs are abe to increase compat with windows programs, and each year microsoft has less (legal and illegal) options to try to slow down development, so maybe a good alternative for gamepass could become available.

Its also well known gabe and valve have been trying to distance from microsoft control, which is also why steam os was made in linux (originally it was a fork from ubuntu steam os v2 is based in arch-linux).Īlso microsoft for that and other reasons, will always try to keep other 'windows only' features and programs strictly 'windows only' (ie among linux users a popular theory is that they have paid big 'donations' to companies like adobe to avoid making native versions of their software afaik theres no evidence of that, but its very possible and makes sense in relation to how bill gates and other related people have behaved previosly). So either MS put a lot of effort into making a Steamdeck version or they launch a gamepass subscription that runs solely through Steam.Īnd both are unlikely to happen, because its well known how microsoft has tried to sabotage, or at least slow down linux development, because they dont want people using a different os, or having the possibility to evade tracking from modifying the os for that purpose (data mining is the big business of the decade).

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