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Think you're being a bit generous to think more games will be ported to Linux over it. Unless the thing sells well it's gonna be business as usual. Would be cool to see but I can't imagine it'll pick up steam (no pun intended) the same way the Switch has. The Switch is tailor made for that experience and PC gaming isn't really. But I do hope it does well even with my pessimism.
Well, SteamOS thing caused Steam to go on Linux so it benefited the platform a bit
I have no love for Valve, but I don't think it can be argued that SteamOS and Steam in general helped jump start linux support for games. I think linux support was always going to increase but I don't think it was a given that there would be so much widespread support at this point.