Tesla to demo Steam for more in-car gaming soon using Linux & Proton

Computer games in a car... What could possibly go wrong?

(Edit: Just to be clear, I'm joking. I'm expecting them to prevent access to games while driving.)


Last edited by soulsource on 19 July 2022 at 9:10 am UTC

one of the reasons why unity still supports linux, even with the proton thing:
https://unitydevelopers.co.uk/unity-ported-into-tesla-cars/

native version is always preferable i guess.

and looks like godot was used to make their ui or something:
https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/syy5w6/til_godot_is_used_at_tesla/

i found another link, its 404 probably because the people were already hired

https://www.ignboards.com/threads/tesla-usa-godot-engine-o-o.455777908/


Last edited by elmapul on 19 July 2022 at 9:40 am UTC

Computer games in a car... What could possibly go wrong?

(Edit: Just to be clear, I'm joking. I'm expecting them to prevent access to games while driving.)

I dunno. Car OSs are all wrong imho.

I can do everything on my android phone while driving. Call people, browse facebook, play angrcy birds, educate myself on youporn. Everything except set a destination on the damn google maps. For which I'm forced to use the car touchscreen, which takes 5 times longer to achieve the same result, if you even can with just keyboard input
(most often you just want to look on the map and click on a spot).

Even if I turn off the car the maps remains locked for minutes so don't even think about taking a advantage of a traffic light or an emergency pitch. I hope there is place in hell for the guy that designed this.

So yes.

Since gaming is something that you shouldn't have to do everyday while driving I'm 100% sure they'll allow it.


Last edited by Mal on 19 July 2022 at 10:49 am UTC

The more companies invested in the success of Proton/Linux/Wayland/Vulkan/etc, the better.

The more places games could be played on Linux the better.

It all creates more incentive for game publishers to keep Linux support/Proton compatibility at the back of their minds while planning future game releases.

Playing Carmaggedon while playing Carmaggedon.

Awesome !

Just wait for your car to go haywire on a GPU hang/crash.

I get it your passengers want a pastime cause your a boring driver but just get a steam deck ?
Not to mention transportation sickness... Anyone ever tried playing gameboy back in the days ?

I'm all for linux, steam and godot but on a tesla there's just so many sorts of wrong. But who knows, maybe this gonna be the killer app.

...maybe this gonna be the killer app.

Saw what you did!

So I just learned the other day that Elon Musk was removed as CEO of PayPal because he tried to move the infrastructure from Unix to Windows. Guess he learned his lesson.

That is hilarious. Sadly that is basically what happened to Hotmail after MS bought them. Moved all their stuff from FreeBSD to Windows, and like the majority of all things bought by Microsoft, it turned shitty.

So I just learned the other day that Elon Musk was removed as CEO of PayPal because he tried to move the infrastructure from Unix to Windows. Guess he learned his lesson.

That is hilarious. Sadly that is basically what happened to Hotmail after MS bought them. Moved all their stuff from FreeBSD to Windows, and like the majority of all things bought by Microsoft, it turned shitty.

Anyone knows what will happen next time an OS Update is pushed to an operating SpaceX rocket?

The more companies invested in the success of Proton/Linux/Wayland/Vulkan/etc, the better.

The more places games could be played on Linux the better.

It all creates more incentive for game publishers to keep Linux support/Proton compatibility at the back of their minds while planning future game releases.

Yeah and in terms of sheer numbers . . . When Tesla's value started to soar, it was purely on spec, people's imagining of what it might become, irrational exuberance, almost getting to the point of "extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds". But the bet could pay off . . . Tesla sales keep nearly doubling every year and they're already at the point where even in terms of raw number of cars sold, they are not a small car company. If they can get their hands on enough battery materiel and keep doubling for a couple more years, they'll be a frigging huge car company.

So for instance (quickly googles), Tesla made 930,000 cars in 2021, and seems clear that 2022 will be bigger. So we're talking about, minimum, a million plus gaming rigs sold per year. Quite likely continuing to grow exponentially for a while, so in a couple years it'll be like 2 million per year. True, lots of these will not be used for gaming, but still, that's a number of units per year bigger than the current total number of Linux users on Steam. This is not a small deal.

I can see it now.. when someone says: You should get out more!

"I'm going out!"

5 minutes down the road, pulls over and continues their game on their Tesla Deck!

With all these companies investing in Proton we'll probably see the time when Microsoft adds a new feature to DX and at the same time adds it to Proton.

Now all we need is autonomous driving that doesn't get you killed! :D

Now if the steering wheel can be used as a controller when stopped, that would make for a neat car sim rig. Just pair it with a VR headset for extra immersion :)

As much I'd love the idea of playing Max Payne, Lumines, or Half-Life 2 on Steam in a car, or opening RetroArch and emulating Tetris Plus or Spyro the Dragon, I do consider being able to play games in a car a very good idea. That only works if someone (or something) else is driving the car.

With all these companies investing in Proton we'll probably see the time when Microsoft adds a new feature to DX and at the same time adds it to Proton.

Well, it would be funnier if microsoft would have to port back fixes from Proton because otherwise the games/software won't run on ms-windows


Last edited by peta77 on 19 July 2022 at 7:55 pm UTC

Now if the steering wheel can be used as a controller when stopped, that would make for a neat car sim rig. Just pair it with a VR headset for extra immersion :)

https://twitter.com/teslaownersSV/status/1547997641253871624?s=20&t=AtRvl55FriKA2DLPXKGNSg

So, I buy this car for me put steam on. I'm home playing a steam game. My spouse then takes my car to do an errand, it turns on, logs into my steam account ( kicking me at home off). So now I'm trying to call my spouse while they are running errands to go back to the car and close steam?


I can kinda see the criticisms that these innovations are all thought up of people that don't have to think about family life.

Microsoft has been trying very hard lately to prevent machines from installing Linux natively via hidden bios options that most normies would have no clue about or even risk touching no matter how much they wish to try or move to Linux.

So any movement towards supporting more Linux and Proton stuff will be overall good in the long run for Linux as a echo-system; regardless of how much the extreme/hardcore workstation productivity users protest! (you know the ones that believe Linux is only for them and translation layers are the devil! Native or go home, we will bomb your house... those people...)

So, I buy this car for me put steam on. I'm home playing a steam game. My spouse then takes my car to do an errand, it turns on, logs into my steam account ( kicking me at home off). So now I'm trying to call my spouse while they are running errands to go back to the car and close steam?


I can kinda see the criticisms that these innovations are all thought up of people that don't have to think about family life.

I thought Steam actually had some kind of family account thing.