Valve's interest is in selling the Steam Deck handheld, which is an Arch Linux PC that just defaults to a friendly console UI, playing Windows games transparently through Proton. It's probably the best example of average consumers using full-blown desktop Linux.

ChromeOS is probably more widely used, but yeah. And Steam Deck must be by far the largest use case for Wine.

Calling ChromeOS Linux is like calling Android Linux. It's barely passable in that it derives from it, but there are so many things different.

SteamOS has the benefit of being basically entirely open and modifiable. Heck, it has KDE Plasma for its desktop mode.

Android is Linux, just not GNU/Linux :)

Yeah, the GNU disambiguation is relevant now. Years of interjecting for a moment have paid off.

Yeah, except for the whole steam part of it, which includes the input stack. You can build far more of ChromeOS from open source than SteamOS.

For now, you can draw the line for what he means at GNU since SteamOS is that while ChromeOS is not. But if someone made a GNU/Linux that holds your hand everywhere like ChromeOS, it would probably be "not real Linux." So maybe the better designation is "Linux for nerds."

I can't say enough how much of an advancement to Linux gaming Valve and Proton has been. The fact that I can pick up my steam deck and play 99% of PC games flawlessly is amazing compared to the state of Linux gaming a decade ago.