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I think it's grossly undersold personally. What valve has managed is getting the single target platform open source could never agree on.
It's a small miracle, and it bleeds over into stuff like device driver support in a way I don't think most people who didn't deal with Linux in the 2.x era immediately appreciate.
If Linux on the desktop has a surge, they did a lot of the legwork.