Should be awesome , I'd like participate on that , at least on testing
it.
Best regards,
On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 17:37 -0500, Justin W. Flory wrote:
Hi folks! The Fedora Project Leader kicked off this discussion on
the
council-discuss mailing list. Since I imagine folks here have a lot
of
unique viewpoints about gaming on Linux, I encourage you to check out
the thread and share your perspective if you are inclined:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/council-discuss@lists.fedor...
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Subject: Fedora and Steam
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:43:49 -0400
From: Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
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To: Discussions with the Fedora Council and community
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So, a lot of people have been asking me about this! Steam, of course,
is a a
popular platform for gaming, and it runs on Linux. Valve, the company
behind
it, puts a lot of resources into gaming on Linux (including working
on open
source video drivers). Until now, they'd explicitly endorsed and
supported a
specific non-Fedora Linux distro. However, there's been some changes
which you can read about in this forum post:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1640915206447625383/,
which says in part:
The Linux landscape has changed dramatically since we released the
initial version of Steam for Linux, and as such, we are re-
thinking how
we want to approach distribution support going forward. There are
several
distributions on the market today that offer a great gaming
desktop
experience such as Arch Linux, Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Fedora, and many
others.
We'll be working closer with many more distribution maintainers in
the
future. [...]
Several people have suggested to me that it'd be awesome for a Fedora
offering to be _the_ supported Steam distribution. Or at least, a
formally
recommended one. I can definitely see the appeal -- although we
haven't
targetted gamers formally except through the Games spin (which
showcases
open source gaming), gaming is generally pretty important to the
student/academic audience we'd like to reach.
But, of course, Steam is a proprietary platform, and gaming comes
with the
large elephant-in-the-room that is Nvidia. Despite awesomeness from
the AMD
open source driver recently, and Intel integrated video good enough
for a
lot of basic gaming, Nvidia still has a near monopoly.
I don't have any specific requests or direction from the informal
conversations we've had with Valve so far, but I imagine that in
order to
really make a Fedora edition or spin their official recommendation,
they'd
want some kind of consideration given to problems that might come up
with
their proprietary system (or with the Nvidia driver). We've
traditionally
had bright line here, where while we may provide advice and point to
workarounds when there's a problem with popular proprietary software
(like
Steam games, even -- see this from F26
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F26_bugs), we don't block or
slip the
release for them.
I know this a contentious topic with a lot of different opinions, but
let's
not let that stop us from talking about it. What _are_ our options
here, and
what are we willing to do?
For example, maybe we would not slip the general release, but would
allow a
Fedora-branded spin to delay release until some bug is worked out.
Or, we
could decide that we want to stick to our all-open-source criterion
but
interested teams could work with Valve to be aware of our release
schedule
and make sure they're able to test and get things working _before_ we
hit
release freeze. If it comes to it, maybe we'd allow Fedora editions
or spins
that want to and which have Steam installed from a third-party
repository to
warn of potential problems before upgrading. These are just some
thoughts,
not specific plans.... I can imagine a range of possibilities.
In any case, let's talk about the pros and cons here and what we can
gain
for Fedora and for our open source and free software cause, and what
we're
able to do within our values to accomplish that.
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