<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>WhyNotHugo</author><text>Yeah, Steam continuously investing on Linux is what keeps MS in check.&lt;p&gt;Microsoft knows they can&amp;#x27;t lock down the OS while gaming on Linux [at least] works.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s truly an insurance policy, and they have to pay it each month -- if they let Linux gaming lag behind long enough, they lose their ground on MS.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jnr</author><text>If I remember correctly, Valve started doing this some time ago as an &amp;quot;insurance policy&amp;quot;, when Microsoft spoke about locking down Windows (before they introduced Windows Store).&lt;p&gt;It is amazing to see how far Linux gaming has come since then. 10 years ago almost none of the big games worked, 5 years ago lots of games worked after fiddling with wine config, and now most of the games I have tried work out of the box after enabling Proton.&lt;p&gt;Imagine what will come in the next 5 to 10 years.</text></item><item><author>mosselman</author><text>Valve is doing god’s work when it comes to Linux gaming. I have played over 40 hours of GTA V without many troubles. The game looks great and performs great. So glad I could get rid of my windows install.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jorvi</author><text>All that is needed now is working with the most-used anti-cheat companies. It sucks when a game works perfectly but you get booted (and possibly banned) for running Linux.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Jnr</author><text>If I remember correctly, Valve started doing this some time ago as an &amp;quot;insurance policy&amp;quot;, when Microsoft spoke about locking down Windows (before they introduced Windows Store).&lt;p&gt;It is amazing to see how far Linux gaming has come since then. 10 years ago almost none of the big games worked, 5 years ago lots of games worked after fiddling with wine config, and now most of the games I have tried work out of the box after enabling Proton.&lt;p&gt;Imagine what will come in the next 5 to 10 years.</text></item><item><author>mosselman</author><text>Valve is doing god’s work when it comes to Linux gaming. I have played over 40 hours of GTA V without many troubles. The game looks great and performs great. So glad I could get rid of my windows install.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Valve Is Working on Another Extension to Help in Direct3D-over-Vulkan</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor</url></story>