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I don't get it, but I'd like to. Would you explain the difference for me?
Most Linux users on the internet are elitists.
Not much more to take away from that comment. It's essentially differentiating between "casual Linux users" and "real Linux users".
As a Linux enjoyer it's definitely true that the elitist/casual ratio is higher on Linux compared to Windows or MacOS (especially Arch manual installers), but as more and more people will adopt Linux, this ratio will probably be lower and lower.
Here we go.
Who are you to decide what does and does not belong on Linux?
I think what they were specifying was the role GNU plays in that sentence. Personally I don't like calling one GNU/Linux and the other Linux, but the defining point of GNU is that it's uses only free open source software, and does not contain any non-free (as in speech, not beer) software.
GNU preaches free software. Steam is nonfree. I think they're just trying to point that out.
Paranoid people usually will use a flatpak version of software, since that can secure the person's privacy a bit more than a non-flatpak one. (The program is isolated from the system, just like a docker container if you know what that is)