Yup, if I was worth an obscene amount, I'd still work, but the nature of my work would change. It sounds like he found something he enjoys that happens to make a ton of money.

Linus Torwalds seems to agree as per TIL post earlier this week.

Rts and sci-fi not fantasy

I think you missed the point. No one was talking about Android or iOS. We were talking about Windows and Linux. Valve's investment in Linux began back in the Windows Vista days when MS tried to control Windows the same way that Apple does with iOS.

Power always corrupts.

Thanks, but I have my very reasonable doubts

Thx, will remember that


Honestly I think the reason for the pseudo cult think is three parts he doesn't want it, he keeps his head down, and valve generally produces decent services and products. If any of those disappeared folks would probably stop it to a large degree.

> unless it's a business shattering literally apocalyptic event. If that's not an issue relating directly to their role I don't know what it. The only reason they'd wake up 3AM for some crisis is if either the market is collapsing or their company is collapsing. Those things happening unexpectedly is something the majority of CEO-s will never experience. I guess it doesn't suck to be a CEO when the sucky thing almost never happen.

You literally mentioned iOS above. And my point stands. If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform, much like he’s helped the Linux community and his own business interests. Him going after Microsoft benefits everybody. Him going after Apple could do the same.

I hope that he decides to work on a neutral payment processing system. Cooperating with the EU's Linux initiatives, he can probably put quite a bit of weight onto the scale, making a digital Euro into a thing.

I'm not doing that, just saying it. There's no reason to idolize anything. Even idols. Antique Mediterranean was better for being as religiously pluralistic as rural China.

> You literally mentioned iOS above. It's _literally_ called an analogy. It was not _literally_ the subject of the conversation. > If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform You're still _literally_ demonstrating that you don't understand the motive of supporting Linux, despite me _literally_ just explaining it. Gabe _literally_ does not care about the platform, he cares about protecting his revenue stream. Making Linux phones would _literally_ not do that.

I understand this was motivated by his businesses interests. But it’s happens to benefit others as well. Value working to make Linux phones more viable is a bit of a pipe dream but it would certainly whip Google and Apple into shape. And that was my point.

Hekps to keep a healthy routine. Nothing worse than an unstructured day where you mentally waste away.

You only get that "marketing" if your game is already popular. So the 99% of games not getting that visibility are paying the same as those free that are.

And the market is only open from 9:30-4. Not that steam is even publicly traded.

Sure, we know loot boxes are bad because they exploit the psychology of gambling. But what about Steam sales? They’re exploiting FOMO, hoarding/collecting psychology. We know that Steam users are [buying billions of dollars worth of games they never play](https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/pile-of-shame).

Now you're being actually ridiculous. "Sales are bad"? Really?