Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 day agoI am trying to give their programmers credit where I can; first, the massive influx of time and money into gaming on Linux has had obvious, amazing benefits. And my recent gripes would be about a persistent bug that has crept into Steam OS desktop mode; but it’s a one line shell script to fix, and they just moved to a much more recent kernel, not to mention officially tackling support for third party handheld PCs, so…yeah, that all sounds like a headache on crack.
But, honestly, I hear ya all the same. I think we feel confident holding these guys to a high standard for good reasons, so hopefully it all comes out in the wash.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 day ago
Thank you, I think at some point I’ll end up getting the Frame, or at least a newer headset that’s guaranteed to be supported by their API, so I certainly hope it’ll work on Linux.
Sure, they’ve done a lot to make the transition to linux easier, and that’s great. Especially right now with Microsoft going to shit harder than ever. To me it sounded a bit overdramatic around Win8 when they went all “Microsoft gaming is over” but they were definitely right to start working on it.
But specifically for VR I tend to think they should be held somewhat accountable because, they sell VR games. I bought games there with the expectation they’d work, and they did, for a while. The fact they suddenly don’t without anything changing on my end is bad. Especially since one solution would be letting us go back to the version that worked.
Unfortunately for now the only good workaround I know is VD, which is Windows-only proprietary software.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Oh, I assume a solution like Sunshine/Moonlight on Linux don’t provide what you need?
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 day ago
I do have that between my 2 PCs. It works surprisingly well, definitely could be useful for stuff I can only get to run on the windows one.
Not too useful in that particular case though, since VR is already sort of streamed to the headset anyway, if I can do it from the windows server I don’t need the linux client in between. The thing that bothers me most is I’m still dependent on my meatier VR PC to stay on windows to keep using VR. For now, it’ll do, but with things going the way they are…
I also don’t have VD to experiment from my linux, but for now, it would just be nice to have.