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The Playtron team working on PlaytronOS has grown recently, with the creator of the popular app Lutris joining up.

What is PlaytronOS? An upcoming specialised Fedora Silverblue based Linux distribution from Playtron. Designed to work with Steam, Epic Games, GOG and more. It's backed by the likes of Samsung, Square Enix, Circle & Mysten Labs and is taking aim at both SteamOS from Valve and Windows from Microsoft to give a simple interface to get gaming on handheld PCs and more.

A first Alpha of PlaytronOS was just recently released so they're actually beginning to show what they're doing.

Now, in a post on Patreon, Mathieu Comandon the creator of Lutris announced how they're "Joining forces with Playtron". As Comandon explained:

Having a console like experience on Linux was something I’ve always wanted but building a full OS for Lutris was always out of scope given the effort required to maintain it. Maintaining the Lutris project is already quite a substantial load and we wouldn’t have the manpower to drive such a project. But with joining forces with other projects and getting support from investors that’s a whole different story. My plan was to find a job after the SCaLE expo, ending a period of only relying on savings and donations. I put aside the other prospects I had and got in touch with Playtron. A few weeks after, I was joining their team as a developer to work mostly on the UI side of things.

The post also briefly touches on some issues like PlaytronOS not currently supporting actual Native Linux games, and crypto/web3, which I touched on in previous articles too. The post also notes how like with SteamOS, the development of PlaytronOS "directly contributes to the evolution of several open source projects".

So now the Playtron team has developers from Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, ChimeraOS, winesapOS and Box64 to name just a few.

Lutris fans will also be happy to know a new release is "on the way" that will have "many fixes, notably for the Ubisoft integration" along with "better support for umu and Flatpak". More about Lutris can be seen on the official website.

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iHad169 Sep 11
I think Playtron will is ARM linux gaming OS. Now, I cannot see which any OS is preinstall Box64. I very like Playtron project.I hope SteamOS quick preinstall Box64 to support ARM CPU. If support RISC will more very good.


Last edited by iHad169 on 11 September 2024 at 5:09 am UTC
Caldathras Sep 11
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: Caldathras
Quoting: Penglingclaiming that there'd be an AI assistant from Perplexity that will play your games for you if you get stuck
Good grief!! What's the point of playing games at all, then! This is the sort of prosthetic I can do without ...
Apparently it will also have fun for you, so you won't have to experience that.
ROFL
Murray Sep 12
Ah what a terrible name... Playtron? Really?
The OS sounds exciting though!
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