• shockwave
    link
    fedilink
    341 year ago

    It’s not just about crashes. You can switch compositor without logging out or save save the full state of an app to disk to ‘sleep’ the app if you are short of memory. I’m sure people will think of other possibilities too.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      251 year ago

      I’m a big fan of high availability software rollouts. It would be interesting to see this do a live update where you spin up the new compositor, run some test on it, if it passes hand off, if that succeds kill the old one. Minimal disruption for the end user.

      Kind of neat for desktop users, but for kiosks or other always running GUIs its super cool to me

      • Gamma
        link
        fedilink
        English
        171 year ago

        Valve should get on this for gamescope, imagine Steam Deck doing a system update without closing your game.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          41 year ago

          The Steam Deck is immutable aka image based and I am not sure if Steam isn’t part of that image too or what effects that would have but it definitely would be a cool feature!

        • @merthyr1831
          link
          31 year ago

          For SteamOS this would manifest as seamless transitions between gamescope and desktop mode, which atm needs you to log out of one session to log into the other.