It would be really nice if at some point PS5s could get a second life as cheap Steam Machines or even desktop PCs. I surely wouldn’t buy one now, but in a few years as a cheap second hand purchase it would be nice to have Linux running on them properly. So it is quite sad to see someone skilled with making that happen leave like this.
I really, really wish that there were laws that forced companies to allow people to unlock their devices once they lose support. Sony don’t make any money from PS3s any more, so why not allow people to unlock them and tinker?
Yeah, I’m tired of paying money for devices a corporation controls to make it work in their best interest instead of mine, even if there is a small hope of hacking my way into root access that I should’ve had in the first place since it’s legally MY device I bought and paid for. At this point, a Linux gaming PC can play most games, and any console exclusives will be available to emulate at some point, but even if they weren’t, I’m not giving any more money to assholes like Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft.
Bazzite is excellent, especially with all the hidden away developer tools under the hood, like distrobox. I have been using it as my daily driver for about two years after jumping from Fedora. Very impressed.
At least Valve leaves you root access when you buy their hardware. I don’t like Steam and normally use Lutris instead, which is certainly an option on Valve hardware as well.
That’s why you don’t buy locked down shit like this. The good news is that we now have steamOS, and it’s no longer really necessary
It would be really nice if at some point PS5s could get a second life as cheap Steam Machines or even desktop PCs. I surely wouldn’t buy one now, but in a few years as a cheap second hand purchase it would be nice to have Linux running on them properly. So it is quite sad to see someone skilled with making that happen leave like this.
I really, really wish that there were laws that forced companies to allow people to unlock their devices once they lose support. Sony don’t make any money from PS3s any more, so why not allow people to unlock them and tinker?
Probably because there is stuff inside that Sony is licensing and can’t share access to since they had to pay. Like h264.
I don’t know why I had assumed Sony was still using CRIADX etc
I’m sure they licensed stuff for their own os, but why does that mean we can’t install Linux?
It doesn’t, but we aren’t dealing with sensible people here.
Absolutely agree.
First, PS5s need to get cheap, which they still aren’t.
And thanks to slopfarms this won’t change in foreseeable future.
Yeah, I’m tired of paying money for devices a corporation controls to make it work in their best interest instead of mine, even if there is a small hope of hacking my way into root access that I should’ve had in the first place since it’s legally MY device I bought and paid for. At this point, a Linux gaming PC can play most games, and any console exclusives will be available to emulate at some point, but even if they weren’t, I’m not giving any more money to assholes like Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft.
I get your point but steam itself is not open, right?
No. But, you can run any store on them. Even access kde
Xbox and ps5 you’re limited exclusively to their stores
Also, steam have done a lot to help all Linux gamers
Bazzite is basically an attempt to make an open source analogue to steamOS. And a pretty successful one, I’d say.
Bazzite has been pretty solid for me.
Bazzite is excellent, especially with all the hidden away developer tools under the hood, like distrobox. I have been using it as my daily driver for about two years after jumping from Fedora. Very impressed.
The default touch controls are also pretty good, at least on my Thinkpad. I’ve used lots of distros but Bazzite might be my favorite.
At least Valve leaves you root access when you buy their hardware. I don’t like Steam and normally use Lutris instead, which is certainly an option on Valve hardware as well.
The company and program aren’t, the OS and hardware are, at least in the sense of user control.