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- theandrocollection@lemm.ee
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Rosenzweig, known for her Panfrost and Apple M1/M2 GPU driver work is now contracted by Valve to work on graphics driver development! Sounds like great news for Valve’s push for Linux gaming.
I’m so torn about valve. It is after all a proprietary platform. I use it since always and have hundreds of games and just know they’ll all be gone at some point in the future. No word about making steam client open source, not even talking about something like decentralized proof of ownership etc. (For obvious reasons)
That said: they do incredible work for Linux. Their games have been Linux compatible since ages! And actually play well on Linux. Their client works flawlessly. And what they have done with proton is just flat out incredible. As you say Linux gaming is awesome currently and has not been that exciting for a long time. In short they do awesome work, I’d just wish they were a little bit open sourceier.
@afunkysongaday @Nyla_Smokeyface they did say that they’d make a system to allow you to still access your games if it were to ever shut down.
That is totally fair! It bothers me to think about that too, but considering that they are the biggest game platform ever I would be surprised if the platform were to shut down and they would just be like, “lmao sorry all your games are gone and we won’t do anything about it.” I’m hoping that they’d release the DRM or something (I have no clue how DRM actually works) if that were to happen.