On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 13:43:49 -0400, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 see us becoming _the_ supported Steam distribution unless we are willing to block updates to things to not break Steam (which might include proprietary video drivers).
I don't think that is a good trade off. Certainly working with them to improve things for everybody is a laudable goal.
Personally, I don't use Steam at all. When I want specific proprietary games bad enough, I get them from Gog to avoid drm. I'm starting to move to power 9 to avoid proprietary firmware, but it will be a while before I retire my existing laptops that I currently play games on. None of my current favorite computer games (free and proprietary) are very demanding graphically.
So for me trading off delaying new features in Fedora for a better Steam experience, provides no direct benefits. There may be indirect benefits, but I wouldn't want to give up much for them up front.
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