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Following from alternate stores on consoles, we're not far away from Valve's SteamBox, i.e. prebuilt PCs marketed for living room play. I'm disappointed the ide

Following from alternate stores on consoles, we're not far away from Valve's SteamBox, i.e. prebuilt PCs marketed for living room play. I'm disappointed the idea never took off. I would love the game industry to fully embrace Linux. If cloud gaming gains more traction, the industry might just do that. Why develop games to run on custom-built blades in a data center when generic blades exist?

criddell 6y ago
> prebuilt PCs marketed for living room play That's been a dream for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
andoriyu 6y ago
> I would love the game industry to fully embrace Linux. Take a look at what all linux games are lacking and what nearly all AAA game that aren't on linux have. ... DRM and Anti-Cheat. Let's forget that DRM is trash. Publishers want to have it, and they don't care about our opinion of it. You can't really "port" DRM, you have to develop a whole new one for Linux and figure how to prevent easy-peasy eBPF programs to make cracking it easy. Anti-Cheat is another story. Valve and Easy Anti-Cheat are currently working on bringing it to Linux. You need that and you want that for any online game. Probably not as hard as DRM, but still requires a lot of linux specific work.