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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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SteamOS is making huge strides for adoption, i look forward to more people being freed from corporate lock in.
Steam/Proton/Gamescope work outside of steamOS. Valve contributes to open source software, including linux amd drivers, that can easily be used outside of steamOS
Maybe so, but Steam itself is still proprietary, closed source software.
It is, but you are not really locked in it
As long as the game does not depend on Steam APIs for DRM (which is not Valve's fault), you can absolutely copy over the game files and play it outside of Steam, and even use Proton, although it's only officially supported in Steam.