Bazzite, others announce Open Gaming Collective

https://gardinerbryant.com/bazzite-announces-open-gaming-collective/

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kopasz7@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 191d (4 replies)

OGC?

I thought we settled that it's not a good acronym...

https://www.fastprint.co.uk/Assets/User/2004-ogc.jpg

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 190d

They knew what they were doing 😏

MrSoup@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 191d

£14,000 to find a way to sneak it in.

xtools@programming.dev · 5 pts · 190d

a snowman with a boner?

nieceandtows@programming.dev · 3 pts · 189d

This is hilarious

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 57 pts · 190d (3 replies)

I so so love open source. "We are all in competition with each other. Let's pool our resources and share knowledge to make us all better."

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 190d (2 replies)

Right? Can you imagine this headline except it says MS, Google, and Apple are going to move toward a common kernel?

xtools@programming.dev · 15 pts · 190d

they'd be more likely to move towards a common way to invade people's privacy

JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 189d

They do these types of things, a lot more often than open source projects actually.

Thread Group:

  • ARM
  • NXP
  • Samsung
  • Qualcomm
  • nest labs (google)
  • Apple

I will list more that for example google and/or apple are a part of, but not the involved companies to not make a wall

  • OpenID Foundation
  • FIDO Alliance
  • AOMedia (AV1)
  • CSA (formerly ZigBee alliance)
  • Bluetooth SIG
  • Apache Foundation
  • Unicode Consortium
  • WiFi alliance
  • LLVM Foundation

Not to mention smaller groups that collaborate to discuss strategy over activies like golf or dinners.

The downside is that very very often, the collaboration involves how best to fuck over consumers and the general public for more profit margin.

eleijeep@piefed.social · 38 pts · 190d (5 replies)

I wish people would get in the habit of posting the original source of the news instead of an article about the original source. This article doesn't add any useful commentary or insight beyond what is already stated in the original post.

Kirk@startrek.website · 11 pts · 190d

If I was the tyrant king of Lemmy I would force all communities to do this

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 189d

You know what, I honestly hate this argument.

The normal user that has a job, a life, a world outside of social media isn't going to be going to monitor and go to all the disparate original sources to find this information. The journalists who are paid to go to all of these original sources, aggregate, add their thoughts if they have it, and let their audience know about all the news. They deserve to be paid by their job to aggregate and inform with some clicks and some ad revenue.

Otherwise, how about you go and trawl the internet for all gaming news all day every day and do it for free for the rest of us instead of complaining. But we all know none of you complainers do, you go to the same gaming sites OP does, reads the same articles, and then just complain about how unoriginal everyone else is.

cm0002@suppo.fi · -1 pts · 190d (2 replies)

Tbf, the article author links the original source right at the start lol

spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 190d

One thing you'll learn on Lemmy is that they don't want to give low effort articles the clicks.

artyom@piefed.social · 2 pts · 189d

Then why didn't you use it?

RedSnt@feddit.dk · 29 pts · 190d

This is excellent news! I know that Nobara and PikaOS were already code sharing for some stuff like the driver manager, so I'm happy to see them deepen that bond and bring others aboard.

artyom@piefed.social · 19 pts · 191d (4 replies)

Instead of each distro maintaining separate patches and fragmented hardware support, improvements can now be shared across the entire ecosystem

Pardon my ignorance but why is a "collective" necessary for this? Is this not something they could have already been doing unofficially?

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 57 pts · 191d

I think the main difference is before they would go

kernel patch -> own repo -> (own distro and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros

now they're gonna go

kernel patch -> OGC repo -> (OGC distros and PR to mainline Linux) -> other distros

and that means there will be way more code reviewers and testers (and more automated testing?) happening before release

and these things being merged together earlier also makes it easier, especially since I imagine the mainline Linux is pretty slow to accept gaming-related patches

cm0002@suppo.fi · 34 pts · 191d

Yes, but this formalizes things, possibly putting in place policies and SOPs and uniformly agreed upon structures

Not to mention, depending on the legal structure, tax benefits and cash pooling and other financial benefits

PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · -6 pts · 191d (1 reply)

Yes, but now they can use it to dodge taxes while doing so /s

thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 189d

why is this getting downvotes?? it's funny

is that not the point of a sarcastic joke?

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 189d (2 replies)

I mean good to have collaboration but honestly only seeing ASUS as a large, mainstream hardware company on there does say a lot about how the industry still views Linux as not worth supporting and that hardware support is key for getting Linux adoption for everyday use going.

Still very good to see traction.

CPMSP@midwest.social · 2 pts · 189d (1 reply)

Guess ASUS gets my money.

fhoekstra@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 188d

ASUS Linux is a community effort, not part of ASUS the company.

I'd love to be wrong, but I can't find any sources on significant contributions from ASUS.