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  • Games need to live closer to the bleeding edge than a lot of other software.

    Also, for wine/proton, and the other customisations built into the deck, it makes sense to pick a starting point that is more built for customisation. By that I mean there was probably less things they needed to add or remove at the start.

    As mentioned, it’s also likely there was personal bias internally. But even that can be a valid reason as they need to be familiar/comfortable with the starting distro.

    Not saying that Debian cannot do it, but doing it this way probably made valve’s employees lives easier.



  • A sane firewall configuration should have no/minimal impact on a desktop focused OS.

    On the other hand, sometimes programs are really badly made and expect stupid things like there being no firewall.

    You should have one yes, but to each their own.

    I manage a bunch of windows computers and regularly make adding firewall rules part of install scripts, good example: Dreamweaver.