Quoting: pleasereadthemanualThe Verge article is very enlightening on many subjects. Please give it a read if you haven't: https://www.theverge.com/24090470/playtron-gaming-os-linux-handhelds-exclusive [External Link]

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Playtron will cost companies like Ayaneo a fraction of the price of Windows, he says, around $10 per head instead of the $80 that OEMs tell him they spend today. And he says games like Fortnite and Roblox shouldn’t have to fear hackers reverse engineering their anti-cheat solutions because its Fedora Silverblue base has an immutable file system. (I thought SteamOS was immutable, too, but I’ll let more knowledgeable Linux users argue that one.)

what a load of bullshit.
imutable distros arent that hard to break into, at the worst case scenario you fork it and sundely you have an system with anti cheat disabled.
or maybe their anti cheat solution is proprietary but then they enter in a minefield of GPL.

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Quoting: CatKillerIt very much sounds like a scam to extract money from venture capitalists.

well at least it will be from venture capitalists lol

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: PenglingGiven the names involved, hopefully this won't end up being yet another one of those cases where it's revealed as a Linux box and then there's a bait-and-switch to "Oops, we're shipping with Windows instead because people asked for it!".

Well, the entire idea is based around it being Linux, so that won't happen.

the issue is that this look like a solution in search for a problem

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that reminds me of smach z, they promissed make an controler that even valve cant match in an computer with good specs and many other things, initially they said they were going to use linux for some reason, but then, they felt enough pressure to change to windows and...
where are they again anyway?
took people money then disapear?

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And they say to expect "Playtron on Laptops & PCs, TVs, XR and in Car in the coming years",

i saw this movie before.
canonical promissing their own display server , promossing to make an OS for TVs, phones, Tablets, pcs...

looks like they are trying to attract investors by promissing more than they can fulfill, yet i never heard of this company before.

this mockup device on the picture dont help the lack of buttons proves they dont know what they are doing, maybe its just an concept pic and the real device will be different, but i wouldnt use an picture like this even as a concept if i wanted to inspire confidence, unless they are targeting mobile gamers.

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"The next AAA game from 4A Games."
then they relase an "AAAA" game just to piss off this deal :v
indirect at ubisoft.

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Quoting: EssojeIf anyone comes across the technology necessary to punch people through the monitor, but specifically corporate lawyers that deal with copy"""right""", please do inform me. I have great interest on the potential uses of such an advancement, which could likely send us into the next step of our evolution.

im researching exactly this tech right now! but i need help with funding, 2.4 million to be precise.

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wow, just 34 years later!
just more 850 years to the linux year!

jokes aside, when we reach something like 10% we will skyrocket to bigger marketshares quite quickly due to the network effect and chicken and egg problem.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: elmapulso... the logo on protonDB was not the logo for proton? lol

No, it seems like ProtonDB just recoloured the React logo [External Link]. And I just realised, they're not even within the license since they don't give attribution oopsies.

well i hope react dont react to then, lol.
but if they do we already have some logo to replace then.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: EhvisThe weird thing about these lawsuits is that they are now targeting a company as "the makers of yuzu". I don't know anything about the development, but assuming that this company is the main driving force, it is still only a part of it. Second problem is that this is a US lawsuit using US laws that mean nothing for most of the world. So even if this went to court and Nintendo wins, nothing would change. The emu either continues directly or is forked and continued. So from a perspective of stopping emulation this is not going to work and is possibly going to have the opposite effect. So to me, it sounds more like a way of extorting a few dollars from US corporate entity.

i wouldnt say that, when the main branch of an open source project dies, usually there isnt any fork with enough momentum to keep things working (by working an mean improving instead of just have the same bugs and features that the original software had, without major improvments)

for example, audacity got purchased by an nefarious corporation and afaik their forks dont have enough man power to be an reasonable alternative.

Depends on a bunch of factors. Main ones are probably popularity and whether the original repo continues or not. Libreoffice did fine when it broke away from openoffice because it was popular and a lot of devs moved over to the fork. Since popularity doesn't appear to be a problem for yuzu and that a fork for it would be because the original got taken down, I think it would be fine.

the issue is that nintendo will keep going after the most popular ones, so either we split the popularity at a bunch or we get screwed from times to times and have to found new project leaders and more volunteers/paid people/donnnators to keep the project afloat.
even if the projects can keep up with that it will be a mess with people not knowing wich branch to follow and maybe even geting some malwares in the process.

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