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Quoting: Sakuretsu

Antheas (Antheas Kapenekakis), who was previously part of the Bazzite team and creator of the Handheld Daemon project, but ended up being kicked out due to "repeated violations of our Code of Conduct".

Maybe I'm going to regret asking but what did that guy do?

Making software and hardware working together, which is actually quite hard, very technical and a bit boring.
For example, it makes so that Linux can connect to the internet on an handeld with some wifi modem and antenna but unusual linking or that the software you use can access the position of the analogues sticks.

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I do agree with antheas that the IWD change was too early. My laptop (which has Intel wifi) is fine but my desktop (Realtek WIFI) always disconnects sporadically since the update. Seems that IWD causes issues for non-Intel cards specifically. A lot of other people on the discord reported losing or worse wifi functionality after this update

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I read the post by antheas, why he is not part of bazzite anymore:
Seems to be very wisely for CachyOS to not join OGC.

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Antheas (Antheas Kapenekakis), who was previously part of the Bazzite team and creator of the Handheld Daemon project, but ended up being kicked out due to "repeated violations of our Code of Conduct".

Maybe I'm going to regret asking but what did that guy do?

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Ah, I think you're right. That's a bit unfortunate then. Sounds like he's bitter about the situation and would refuse to relinquish his perceived part-onwership status to spite them. That's a shame.

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Maybe devs will release server software, when shutting down own?

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Quoting: scaineInteresting not at the end where Antheas claims that Bazzite can now never be attached to hardware officially. Not sure I understood the why of that.

From what I understood, Antheas claims part ownership of the brand and will block attempts to change the trademark rule to allow its use by hardware vendor. But I'm unsure about this.

Credential abuse/mishandling does not legally give Kyle the ability to trademark Bazzite or take this kind of decision. In fact, it would be hard trademark Bazzite now, as it is contaminated through my involvement, a lot of which is public and unretractable, and poor handling thereafter. This legal murkiness (pre-existing to an extent) is part of the reason I will be focusing my efforts elsewhere. The Bazzite mark can only be used non-commercially from now on and not e.g. sold moving forward otherwise we will need to have a follow-up discussion.

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Bazzite is smart to remove people like this as they become giant resource drains in the end.

I disagree. It was well written and had examples of where friction was causing issues. But as Liam notes, looking from the outside in, it's impossible to say who's in the right. Just unfortunate drama.

Interesting not at the end where Antheas claims that Bazzite can now never be attached to hardware officially. Not sure I understood the why of that.

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"Antheas has since written up their own version of events"

I made the effort to all read that and regret it as a giant waste of time. Every organization has disagreements and conflicts, but this comes across as petty and unprofessional, full of unverifiable anecdotes and irrelevant gossip. Bazzite is smart to remove people like this as they become giant resource drains in the end.

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Hope it doesn't sour them from officially supporting linux distro's.

Guess that the lesson to be learned is that one shouldn't be too quick to jump on a new distro's bandwagon.

On a completely unrelated sidenote, I am hearing good things about opensuse tumbleweed on gpdwin devices.

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The vast majority for Meta platforms at 82%, SteamVR was next at 37%. Perhaps the Steam Frame will shift this over.

Facebook closing a bunch of VR studios and laying off thousands of workers, having wasted billions chasing a "metaverse," might also shift it over. I expect quite a lot of people are going to wonder whether that platform is the basket they'd like to put all their eggs in.

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Yeah, the usual geek soap opera stuff...

I'm out. I prefer utopian SciFi

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The Linux way of technical debate at its peak. 😇

I wish I could pick a side, but I don't really understand what it entails. Seems to be about input being managed from the kernel or the userspace or something like that.

Thanks for the coverage.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfUgh, nope? Linux is not Windows. Do they also distribute their Android client as an *.apk?

way worse than that. .apk I think is a package format like .deb (for debian based) or .msi (for windows). What they are doing is the completely chaotic windows way of .exe installers.

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Looks like new distro origin story.

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Quoting: tmtvlI'm still going to keep buying games on GOG because the anti-DRM stance is more important than 'oh, they used an AI-generated image' (we don't even know whether the model used is an ethically trained model or not) or 'oh, their launcher doesn't run on GNU/Linux' (you can just download the game from the website and there's Lutris and Heroic and Minigalaxy). I also buy games on Steam and Itch because I know any and all of those bastards will stab me in the back when the mood takes them (and seriously, fuck Valve, fuck GOG, and double fuck Itch for stiffing the fucking devs out of the money their fans pay).

Is AI bad? Well, Adobe Firefly is apparently trained on specifically licensed content where Adobe paid the creators for making the materials the model was trained on, there's also Vaisual and Tess and Mitsua and gods know what else. Maybe whoever provided the banner art for GOG used one of those? But no, AI = bad, so let's not use our brains and just condemn; that's always worked out best.

It's slop. If you like it, OK, but it's undeniable the image quality is abysmal. On top of that there are all the other problems (massive copyright violation, that I suspect is happening here also, environmental disaster, hoarding causing 5x RAM price increase...). But even setting these aside, if you don't care about the presentation of your store and put slop on it...

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Quoting: dubigrasuAI use: "Brainstorming = 81%"
That seems weird, basically asking AI what people would like? (if I understand that correctly)

Brainstorming without a brain.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI don't know why we're acting like Flathub is the only right / official / proper way to do Flatpak? It's not, again - that's part of the point of it. This isn't Snap.

I don't see anything actually wrong with how NVIDIA are doing this. All desktop platforms Windows, macOS and Linux get a direct download from NVIDIA.

Flathub kind of is the official (but not only) way to do Flatpak. :-)

Sure, I wouldn't be so mad if they did it the correct way. Proper *.flatpakref that is click-to-install.

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Q: Any thoughts on the anti-cheat problem for Linux / SteamOS? How can we solve it?

Implement the Windows kernel on Wine. Wine can load and execute Windows kernel drivers to some capacity, that is how some games with ACE already work to some extent. afaik Proton-EM dev is working on this. I know I know easier said than done😅

For EAC & BE boost Linux market share.

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This was posted on Reddit today.🤔
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bazzite/comments/1qr0pqr/gpd_was_in_contact_with_antheas_before_he_left/

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Quoting: AsciiWolfUgh, nope? Linux is not Windows. Do they also distribute their Android client as an *.apk?

They just make everything harder for their Linux users for no reason - and even more harder since they distribute it as a binary blob instead of a standard *.flatpakref. Why?

Binary blob installers were a thing back in 2005s.

They probably do this for two reasons:
1. Add a Flathub remote and install additional dependencies from there. I however believe that a regular flatpakref can also do this and none of this was needed if they published it on Flathub.
2. Install and setup Flatpak support on Ubuntu (which does not have Flatpak support). But is it actually necessary since almost every other distro comes with a Flatpak support out-of-box?

You're right, it's not Windows. But that doesn't really mean anything here. As for Android, no it's on the Play store - but that is the official central way to get any Android apps so it makes sense there.

I don't know why we're acting like Flathub is the only right / official / proper way to do Flatpak? It's not, again - that's part of the point of it. This isn't Snap.

I don't see anything actually wrong with how NVIDIA are doing this. All desktop platforms Windows, macOS and Linux get a direct download from NVIDIA.

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Awesome news!! Bazzite suffers from a lot of hard to reproduce, hardware specific issues and I imagine that is the case for other gaming focused distros as well. On bazzite's github repository, most of the filed issues are about problems on specific hardware and unfortunately remain unaddressed. Same goes for issues filed in their discord server.

This is the way to go, I am so delighted!

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Streaming never feels alright for me. Even on local network using moonlight and 1ms reported network latency, I can feel something is wrong.

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Ugh, nope? Linux is not Windows. Do they also distribute their Android client as an *.apk?

They just make everything harder for their Linux users for no apparent reason - and even more harder since they distribute it as a binary blob instead of a standard *.flatpakref. Why?

Binary blob installers were a thing back in 2005s.

They probably do this for two reasons:
1. Add a Flathub remote and install additional dependencies from there. I however believe that a regular flatpakref can also do this and none of this was needed if they published it on Flathub.
2. Install and setup Flatpak support on Ubuntu (which does not have Flatpak support). But is it actually necessary since almost every other distro comes with a Flatpak support out-of-box?

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Remember: it's not about supporting forever a game that's beyond its "technical life" (or viable/sustainable lifecycle). But to release abandonware as it is, without artifical limits (e.g. online logins for single player games, or with ded servers for users to self-host environments) to further use them once bought/licensed.

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Quoting: dubigrasuAI use: "Brainstorming = 81%"
That seems weird, basically asking AI what people would like? (if I understand that correctly)

I doubt it. Sounds more like a catch-all category for idea generation. Could range from "What is this character’s tic" to "Why did that nation go rogue despite years of peace" to "What would be the symbol of a religion that…" or "Describe the landmarks of a remote village that barely survives thanks to a rare natural resource."

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I don't think it makes it more confusing. If you want GeForce NOW on all platforms - you go direct. It's just keeping up with what they already do for every other platform?

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I think they got rid of MIDI for the 2013 port already, so we're good there.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI do wish they would though, but they clearly want to control every single part of it and so they host it direct.

Making it harder for end-users to find and install their client and also quite pointless since there already is an unofficial "GeForce Infinity" one that works very well and is available on Flathub.

Quoting: Liam DaweTheir script just sets up their Flatpak and their repository for it. You don't have to be given a flatpak file for it to be installed via a Flatpak.

So it also is shipped as a binary blob? Oh wow, this is even worse than I thought. Do they even realize that flatpakrefs can also contain flatpak remotes?

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Quoting: suchProbably just a port of the Switch version. Expect very blurry backgrounds with extremely sharp 3D assets. Hopefully, no new models similar to FF8R, because that'd be more work.

Fun fact: the Switch version is - ultimately - a port of the notorious 1997 PC version, so expect no analog movement and 15fps menu framerate unless this isn't just a sloppy port of an existing sloppy port (of a sloppy 2013 PC port?) of a botched ancient Eidos port. Yum.

Gosh, did the Switch also get the MIDI soundtrack instead of the high-quality samples from PS1?

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