Just a heads up, people should be wary of playtron to a degree: the CEO is a guy named Kirt McMaster. Anyone from the Android enthusiast community may know him as the guy who convinced the creator of CyanogenMod to incorporate (becoming Cyngn) and then drove the company into the ground chasing skinning and theming revenue, and wouldn’t even allow the community to keep the cyanogen brand (they had to rebrand it to LineageOS)
Kirt sucks. He’s a terrible leader and a terrible businessperson. I’m sure there are plenty of great people involved in playtron but with him at the helm of the company I am not expecting it to end well
Also, the fact that they’re backed by a bunch of web3/crypto companies is not great. They say they’re not a web3 company, but it sounds like they’re building UI and tools specifically for Sui wallet and crypto games and letting users opt-out of these “features”.
I don’t want to touch that with a 10-foot pole.
Here’s hoping they build something useful that can be forked to work without the garbage.
You need to create an account to use the Playtron OS. That’s a big no-no for me
Yup.
Only thing that managed to turn me off from this project more than the web3 crap was his involvement.
Just checked it out and it seems that Playtron is yet another Linux distro for gamers. I just can’t see how this can be monitized. How do they plan to get users away from Windows, SteamOS or even Bazzite?
As @thejevans@lemmy.ml said in their above comment, they’re also backed by a company heavy into crypto bullshit.
Also, anything can be monetized. Never underestimate the ability of greedy fuckheads to be greedy fuckheads.
I bet their whole business model is sucking the blood out of their investor fully conscious that the final OS will fail. I mean, there is no way they will find any degree of success in units sold and actual revenue.
I’m pretty sure that qualifies, at least in the US, as financial fraud…
They are trying to have it as a preinstalled OS on PC handhelds that want a more dedicated gaming experience. They are already working on a device made for it
Bazzite is crazy good. There’s absolutely no way they will top it if they keep focusing on the bullshit they are stuffing into Playtron.
Is this the one that Square Enix invested funds into?
Yes
I smell a whiff of crypto, not interested
which I will never use. It sounded like everything I don’t want the first time and it doesnt sound any better now.
umu sounds really promising
more crab-bucket bollocks instead of improving Linux gaming.
