i applaud Linux itself being open source- and love it, but for it to replace windows as my personal PC it needs to run my games- and my games are closed source and i buy them. So yes - i look at the steam initiative and hope it works. and i would love to move completly to linux- with gaming, with adobe lightroom, with my tax software at the end of the year.

but i can't expect people to open up thier programs just to move to linux- and though there are sort of similar products out there- they are not the same