An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.
My dream Linux gaming setup would be a fully configured isolated container that can be run on any host OS. Games are the prime candidates for containerization because they’re all proprietary, and there’s absolutely no reason a game needs user level permissions or to interact with any other program on the system.
Imagine if you could just pull the OGC container from a public registry on your distro of choice, run your game, and then just shut it down when you’re done.
I suspect the biggest barrier would be sufficiently low overhead GPU access though.
This is basically how steam on Linux works.
Windows games are run inside wine
Wine is run in a container (they call the tech pressure vessel, the version of the container most games use is called sniper)
Linux native apps are not forced into a container, except they are on steamos, so guess its coming everywhere later
The container is based on ubuntu
The nice thing is you can give a container full hardware access if you wanted too. So if perf was a must, just steal the whole GPU for the container.
Though my ideal would be sidecar container to base desktop container. Just share what you need bus, and device wise.
DPS meters, trade tools, stat trackers, and a host of other tools. Full isolation is a huge pain in the ass. It’s why I hate flatpak games too. They tend to fucking suck or flat out not work at all the moment you want to use community tools.
There definitely is a line here that goes too far.
QubesOS enjoyer?
Good initiative, not the best name.
Open Geospatial Consortium (also OGC) is leading in its domain and has been for years. https://www.ogc.org/
OGC also looks like a guy beating his meat when you turn it 90 degrees
https://www.coologc.org/ aint taken
The Linux community comes together and tries to solve problems together? Instead fighting each other… Okay, that’s a new one for me.
Oh you must be new here then.
Where have you been, the cave?
Linux community have been solving problems together since the dawn of time, despite the bazillion different standards they endorse on their own, they collaborate with each other.
Take a look at KDE & GNOME. They are opposed to each other on the surface level, but they both share countless amount of work. Also MATE, which is a fork of GNOME that is created basically from disagreement of modern GNOME’s direction, still uses a lot of GNOME’s library.
It was meant to be a meme reply more than anything serious. Obviously there are communities and individuals working together, and on other places they fight each other. I should have made that more clear, that’s on me.
News flash: the things the Linux (open source in general) community fight about are also fought between developers of proprietary software. But you only see some of those fights because the others are either “trade secrets” you have to sign in blood not to reveal, or are in the form of corporate competition, sabotage, and lock-in instead of heated but usually still civil discussion where bridges and compatibility layers can still be built between even completely opposing camps.
That lasted for 25 minutes before someone else replied saying it should avoid serving Valve’s interests.
