It was actually a third party open source project originally lol

There's a reason they made PowerToys Run. It's miles ahead of the default Windows search experience.

Not sure what you mean here with your sarcasm. Proton means that developers can just write games for Windows and expect to make that version compatible with Linux with minimal changes as opposed to making a native Linux version.

As a developer myself, I know that it doesn't make sense for a developer in most cases to write a Linux version and support it when the Linux user base is tiny by comparison. It happened with OS/2 and it can happen again. Not to mention Linux game developer tooling pales in comparison to Windows with DirectX.

I expected this from the start once proton was introduced, just not from Valve themselves... Welp. It's now inevitable.

Sounds a lot like what the fascist regimes of world war 2 were doing...

Don't forget the potential oxidation issues.

Is this really a surprise to anyone outside of the AI hype machine?

This all just sounds like the publisher or MBAs speaking. Did they ask the actual developers on their opinions?

I'm pretty sure BetterDiscord or Vencord would very quickly add in a plugin to disable those ads.

Man what in the world are they doing.

Nintendo does, GameFreak and The Pokemon Company on the other hand..

Adblockers apparently