Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/01/29/2252203/linux-gaming-developers-join-forces-to-form-the-open-gaming-collective
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/870159/linux-gaming-open-gaming-collective-bazzite
> Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, [2]announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the [3]OGC with several other groups, which will collaborate on improvements to the Linux gaming ecosystem and âoecentralize efforts around critical components like kernel patches, input tooling, and essential gaming packages such as gamescope." The other founding members of the OGC include Nobara, ChimeraOS, Playtron, Fyra Labs, PikaOS, ShadowBlip, and Asus Linux.
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> [...] It's worth noting that this will mean some changes to Bazzite, which is switching to the OGC kernel, replacing HHD with InputPlumber as its input framework, and integrating features like RGB and fan control into the Steam UI. Bazzite also added that, "We'll be sharing patches we've made to various Valve packages with the OGC and attempting to upstream everything we can."
[1] https://www.theverge.com/tech/870159/linux-gaming-open-gaming-collective-bazzite
[2] https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/a-brighter-future-for-bazzite/11575
[3] https://opengamingcollective.org/
I just saw a story (Score:2)
That said a third of game developers were laid off in the last 2 years. Ordinarily if an industry fired 1/3 of its employees that would be a major issue because it would inevitably result in a whole slew of new businesses either started by those ex employees or when people pick up those ex employees for cheap.
It's an extremely bleak sign for our economy that the industry felt safe firing that many people. Like something is structurally wrong. Normally companies would at least try to hang on to some of t
Linux sucks (on the desktop) (Score:2)
In the 30 years I've been using Linux, I've never once been able to get it fully working on consumer hardware. I use Linux daily in a VM for writing software, so I don't consider the failure mine.
Re: (Score:2)
It seems to have reversed in the last few years for me. My laptop from 2020 was never able to wake back up from sleep mode, until Windows 10 hit EOL and I put Debian on it. I've also noticed a lot less desktop/video/UI issues since switching to a distro/DE with Wayland.
Positive trajectory aside, it's not that Linux is so perfect and problem-free. It's that Windows 10/11 really, really sucks, even by Microsoft standards. The bottom's fallen out. I'm talking to a guy right now, in the window underneath this o
OGC (Score:3)
OGC looks like a little emoticon of a guy holding his dick.
I still don't see the point (Score:2)
Valve has already been doing great things for gaming on Linux, they don't need this. Bazzite is still doing its things and sharing it with anyone interested, they don't need this. This feels like a circlejerk group who might try to be relevant by pushing an agenda
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> Valve has already been doing great things for gaming on Linux, they don't need this. Bazzite is still doing its things and sharing it with anyone interested, they don't need this. This feels like a circlejerk group who might try to be relevant by pushing an agenda
What agenda would the be pushing? To get more gaming on Linux?