"There are sets of issues to making sure whatever platform you hav🍸e works well in a living room environment. There are thermal issues and sound issues, but there also a bunch of input issues. So the next step in our contribution to thisꦗ [the promotion of Linux for gaming] is to release some work we've done on the hardware side.

"𝄹Next week we're going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for bri🐎nging Linux into the living room, and potentially pointing further down the road to how we can get it even more unified in mobile."

Don’t put in that pre-order just yet. This is not necessarily a pledge to have a finished console out by Christmas. Just a firmer commitment to Linux by Valve, and an incoming roadmap to the possible release of the Steam Box. Or whatever it ends up being called. Still, ꦅmore gaming ♛options are always better than less, and there’s no company better placed to more interestingly disrupt the current status quo than Valve.