Quoting: RCL

Quoting: ShmerlGames aren't distributed as part of the distro, so distro shouldn't really matter. Same as today, you can play games using any distro you want.

This was in context of a gaming-oriented paid distro a la SteamOS proposed by someone earlier.

I think gaming oriented should be focused on UI, DE, compositor and all working well with gaming scenarios. Such as modern Wayland compositor supporting adaptive sync and so on. Open implementation of VR, and etc. All that can be open source. Whether you pay developers to work on it, depends on how they set it up. Patreon is a good option. So games themselves don't really prevent gaming oriented support of the distro from being fully open.

Personally, when it comes to distros and projects, I'd pay for open source development. Not for closed one.

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Quoting: RCLI meant games, it's enough for the point I was making (neither free as in freedom nor free as in free beer). Linux gamers are obviously Okay with this, but Linux community at large not always is, so a proposed commercial distro would be a tough sell. Still, I personally would support it.

Games aren't distributed as part of the distro, so distro shouldn't really matter. Same as today, you can play games using any distro you want.

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Quoting: GuestIf they can get KDE on the development side, I think Plagman would be a happy camper for rebasing SteamOS on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=VxA-vim715w [External Link]

I'd rather them work on Plasma Console or Plasma Gaming version. Making an open gaming UI would be better than any closed one.

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Quoting: RCLCommercial distro designed for gaming would by definition incorporate closed source software so it would be neither, and as such it would have a much harder time attracting users.

Linux users won't appreciate a distro, that pushes for blobs (besides games themselves).

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Frozen 32-bit libs are not acceptable either. They should move forward, or there should be a solution to run 32-bit stuff on up to date 64-bit libraries base. Stale 32-bit libraries are very poor workaround for dropping 32-bit support.

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What we are dropping is updates to the i386 libraries, which will be frozen at the 18.04 LTS versions.

That's not a good thing either. Given how fast mesa, dxvk and the rest are progressing. It totally should not be frozen.

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Quoting: gojulSteamOS being Debian-based, recommending Debian or Mint/Debian would make a lot of sense. But it is true that Debian is not for beginners.

Valve can contribute some resources to make Debian more user friendly. KDE in Debian can surely benefit from more maintainers.

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And good to see Valve backing KWin work!

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Expected outcome. GOG will probably follow with a similar announcement.

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Quoting: mcphailI'm sure the only assumption Mr Pope was making was that yelling on the internet is not a good way to express an opinion. By politely and tactfully demonstrating the problems to the developers he has made his point constructively.

I guess demonstration is useful. But it shows the level of cluelessness those who made such decision have. It doesn't exactly instill confidence.

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