One thing you cannot deny is that Valve is one of few companies that loves gaming on Linux
Valve is a corporation, what they really "love" is money. All their Linux strategy is simply future-proofing. They know that if gaming kept being restricted to Windows, they could have been destroyed overnight by Microsoft, especially since MS start betting hard on gaming and built their own Steam competitor.
and it deserves a huge credit.
Well, they certainly do. I, for one, am grateful, since I've been using Linux for over 20 years. But I know they're in for the money, and that's ok.
I've tried to install garuda last night, it didn't go so well. It's ironic that a debian ISO (bookworm) booted alright but the fancy arch-based garuda didn't... Downloaded the MATE edition, put it on a USB stick, booted the machine aaaaand... no GUI with the nouveau driver, black screen/reboot with the proprietary driver. Nouveau couldn't get my GPU to work, it's an RTX 4600. After an hour or so of fiddling with elinks and duckduckgo I gave up, guess that I should wait for a ISO with the new nvidia 535 driver.
You might be surprised how prevalent universal healthcare is in Asia. Source, am Asian.
Russia, India and Bangladesh are on Asia too. Plenty of poor countries on Asia. But, this is a second-handed account since I'm not from Asia, I'm from South America
That aside, my point was largely to poke holes in the US-centric viewpoint that seems to be the default online.
I understand. They really tend to see themselves as the default, despite being fewer than 4% of the world in absolute numbers, it is unnerving sometimes
oh, I don't doubt that, all distros I've come across have come a long way since I've began using linux