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A few days ago Valve reworked the main navigation bar in its Steam Store and removed a direct link to buy the it hailed as an open alternative to macOS or Windows PC gaming. Combined with a lack of recent announcements people that meant the end of the project, but Valve employee Pierre-Loup A. Griffais says that's not so. It was removed based on user traffic, which isn't surprising considering the lack of post-2016 hardware . In a , he explained the current state of things:
While it's true Steam Machines aren't exactly flying off the shelves, our reasons for striving towards a competitive and open gaming platform haven't significantly changed. We're still working hard on making Linux operating systems a great place for gaming and applications...We also have other Linux initiatives in the pipe that we're not quite ready to talk about yet; SteamOS will continue to be our medium to deliver these improvements to our customers, and we think they will ultimately benefit the Linux ecosystem at large.
The plan moving forward includes more work on the graphics API everywhere, including , while also making sure it's well-supported on Linux so that . It's not clear what those other Linux initiatives in the pipe are exactly, but hopefully, we'll hear about them sooner rather than later.
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