It seems that one of the motivations for Valve creating an OS is that they
can create a custom distro based off of Ubuntu (rumored to be 12.04) and
create a walled garden for their services.
The stories say they wanted to improve the video and audio support in the
Linux ecosystem, but is it just for proprietary video firmware and drivers?
If its just for that, it sucks as the improvements will only be for that
specific OS.
If they put the time and money to work with ATI or Nvidia to improve the free
drivers and re-release back upstream, then that would benefit everyone. I
highly doubt that is their intention though. Still, it would be nice
considering most of their work is cut out for them by using Ubuntu.
