An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.
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
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.
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.
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.
QubesOS enjoyer?