It's not differentiating between "casual Linux users" or "real Linux users," Valve's Steam does not belong in the GNU operating system (GNU/Linux) since it forces users to install a nonfree interface and also invites users to be subject to DRM (though it is optional for developers to enable or not). The problem is not Steam's role as a content distribution manager (handling payments, delivering files), but the fact that it restricts the users freedom through their steam client (which there are no viable free software solutions to).

If a discussion of free software unnerves you, I don't care. But to label this as a conflict between "casual vs real, normie vs elite" is just unironically doing what this meme is mocking in the first place.

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Here we go.

Who are you to decide what does and does not belong on Linux?

[–] GrapefruitDoggo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I think what they were specifying was the role GNU plays in that sentence. Personally I don't like calling one GNU/Linux and the other Linux, but the defining point of GNU is that it's uses only free open source software, and does not contain any non-free (as in speech, not beer) software.

[–] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I didn't the license did :)

[–] Sunrosa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

GNU preaches free software. Steam is nonfree. I think they're just trying to point that out.