From: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
To: Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How would packaging Steam-proton games be received?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:54:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnwx956n.fsf@cbaines.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFkJGRe=hgoyNW6khydDzBcSYi8zV=k7kLGJZCpDKoqfCumAWA@mail.gmail.com>
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Josh Marshall <joshua.r.marshall.1991@gmail.com> writes:
> Happy end of the forever year, everyone
>
> One thing I know that I have run into, and have heard so many times over
> from those on Windows is how unstable or much of a hassle it can be to get
> games to work. In the last few weeks, I spent ~20 hours just to this
> hassle myself. Having everything included as a guix package would go a
> very long way to resolving these instabilities, kicking most of the
> problems down to just the kernel and kernel modules which is far more
> constrained. This should make it easier to make not Windows more
> palatable, but AGPL+DRM isn't exactly the most cozy of relationships.
> Given this, would having these games as packages be permissible? Perfect
> being the enemy of the good and all that.
Hi Josh,
I'm not quite sure what games/software you're referring to, can you
clarify?
In terms of Steam and Proton which you mention, as far as I'm aware,
Steam is non-free software, so not suitable for Guix to distribute
[1]. As for Proton, it might be free software, I'm unsure, so maybe that
would be useful to package?
1: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Software-Freedom.html
Thanks,
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-31 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-31 18:09 How would packaging Steam-proton games be received? Josh Marshall
2020-12-31 18:54 ` Christopher Baines [this message]
2020-12-31 18:56 ` Leo Famulari
2020-12-31 19:12 ` Josh Marshall
2020-12-31 19:53 ` Leo Famulari
2020-12-31 21:07 ` Leo Famulari
2021-01-09 9:47 ` Bengt Richter
2020-12-31 19:55 ` Leo Famulari
2020-12-31 20:36 ` Josh Marshall
2020-12-31 20:50 ` Ryan Prior
2020-12-31 20:55 ` Josh Marshall
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