Because they are one of the few mega companies that hasn’t shrinkflated, enshittified, or otherwise crumbled the quality of their offering. Haven’t sold out the privacy of their customer base to advertising companies, and are generally good to deal with for customers and developers.

It’s not a secret formula that no other company can learn from. It’s as simple as not being dicks IMO.

For some reason, most companies seem to grow too a certain threshold at which they sell their souls to profit and will self destruct to get more of it. Steam thankfully isn’t one of them…… yet.

I’d love to see the stats on searches for systemd alternatives when this news dropped. I thought about it as I myself was searching to replace arch with arctix or void.

I personally like systemd for certain things and have grown lazy with how easy most things are with it, but I would go through the pain to switch.

Any distro that bows to this type of overreach will not be apart of my stack. Hilariously pointless or not.