An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.

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    3 hours ago

    My dream Linux gaming setup would be a fully configured isolated container that can be run on any host OS. Games are the prime candidates for containerization because they’re all proprietary, and there’s absolutely no reason a game needs user level permissions or to interact with any other program on the system.

    Imagine if you could just pull the OGC container from a public registry on your distro of choice, run your game, and then just shut it down when you’re done.

    I suspect the biggest barrier would be sufficiently low overhead GPU access though.

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      DPS meters, trade tools, stat trackers, and a host of other tools. Full isolation is a huge pain in the ass. It’s why I hate flatpak games too. They tend to fucking suck or flat out not work at all the moment you want to use community tools.

      There definitely is a line here that goes too far.

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      This is basically how steam on Linux works.

      Windows games are run inside wine

      Wine is run in a container (they call the tech pressure vessel, the version of the container most games use is called sniper)

      Linux native apps are not forced into a container, except they are on steamos, so guess its coming everywhere later

      The container is based on ubuntu