Why did Valve actually make the Steam Deck? Why did they make SteamOS? It's pretty simple: they care about keeping the PC ecosystem open.

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00:00 - The Origins of Valve Software 00:54 - Much ado about Microsoft 01:30 - Porting Left4Dead2 to Linux 02:07 - Lighting a fire under Microsoft Executives 02:34 - Steam For Linux 03:48 - Native Linux games 04:54 - SteamOS 05:21 - The Steam Machine Disaster 06:05 - The debut of Proton 07:10 - A little history on the "Palmtop" 08:41 - Valve's Hardware Endeavors 09:47 - And we arrive at the Steam Deck 10:47 - The plan for the Steam Deck 11:51 - The REAL reason Valve made the Steam Deck ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erRUzA04aBI