fritzy · HackerTrans

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Protestware is fascinating. It exposes that corporations depend on developers with no formal or informal relationship. It's also like that Daffy Duck cartoon where he performs a magic trick he can only do once -- you can get your message out or cause some damage, but after that, no one will use your tools anymore.

fritzy

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

SteamOS is only going to support other hardware by coincidence. Valve is unlikely to put in resources beyond the hardware that they want to support. It's also unlikely to change the whole "firmware restore, entire drive" approach. They're not going to put in the resources or support work into making and maintaining a full distro by themselves.

A community distro (be it a console-like gaming focused distro or not) is going to be the way to be the way to go for the foreseeable future. I'm pretty happy with running EndeavorOS w/ KDE, Steam, and Heroic. The Steam client with Proton is where most of the magic happens in Linux anyway. If I wanted to get fancy, I could set up GameScope with Steam Big Picture to take a SteamOS/Bazzite approach.

fritzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

There's similar projects like QB64 and L-Basic. I have to wonder if keeping language variants alive will be of historic significance hundreds of years from now. Will anyone care about early computing to this extent?

fritzy

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I did a web remake of the old DOS re-imagining of SpaceWar a few years back as an exercise. https://spacewar.pro https://github.com/fritzy/spacewar.pro

It's kind of fun watching the AI fight each other if nothing else.

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