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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/2XDJS7SN63C6ACLVA5XDXMOX4322IZIZ/ > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Fedora and Steam > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:43:49 -0400 > From: Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Discussions with the Fedora Council and community > <council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Discussions with the Fedora Council and community > <council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora Games SIG mailing list -- games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to games-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sérgio M. 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