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> ...Valve easily has enough sway to convince people to use a new distro If Valve supports some distro, then it'll be possible to put that in a container and r
by rlpb 7y ago
> ...Valve easily has enough sway to convince people to use a new distro
If Valve supports some distro, then it'll be possible to put that in a container and run it on Ubuntu. That part could probably be automated, and users may not even notice the difference.
- overgard 7y agoI don’t know enough about the underlying technology to say if that would work well, but given the level of hardware access games need that sounds really dicey. Ubuntu is a fine distro, but it doesn’t really offer anything terribly unique you can’t get elsewhere, whereas Steam definitely does.
- stingraycharles 7y agoThis is actually very much possible, and will not cause much of a performance degradation (if any). You can easily directly expose the underlying hardware to a container, and it is in fact very much possible to run games from a container. And I say this as someone who ran games on NixOS inside an Ubuntu container as a workaround (because nix is pretty weird when it comes to dynamic linking).