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.
idk docker has so much weirdness edge cases you have to build for, that you can do but I feel like a game should be pretty easy to just statically compile and call it a day. but I guess steam already has their runtime that tries to do the same thing
Pretty much how AMP by CubeCoders works. It’s all docker containers
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
Linux native apps are not forced into a container, except they are on steamos, so guess its coming everywhere later
I think they actually are by default. Steam Linux Runtime has been around for quite awhile, and if I’m not mistaken, it’s basically just a container full of either Debian or Ubuntu.
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
The Linux community comes together and tries to solve problems together? Instead fighting each other… Okay, that’s a new one for me.
