Has been for a long time with Waydroid. This is probably gonna make it easier to use.

Yes, but don't think you're going to be automatically playing games with a keyboard and mouse if they don't already support that 🤣

I used to play Bloons this way back in the day (just not on Linux)

It was a big deal when they announced it several weeks ago. It just flew under the radar for some reason. This is just putting a name to it.

it can eventually turn into one if the project gets a lot of support. the problem is the current intention is to help occulus rift devs port their games to steam, and VR is a reletively niche audience, so its not going to get the development time it needs if it wants to explode.

tangently related, I do see a future where valve goes the route of game native and opens up steam officially on android, but its not quite there at the moment.

It could bridge the app gap when Linux phones become viable daily drivers

Epic is already selling Android games. Would be dumb of the others not to do the same. I'm honestly astonished they haven't jumped on that train earlier. Especially with those big Android ports of older PC games a scheme of buy once play everywhere is pretty obvious. But apart from Itch nobody is doing that.

This is more for their VR headset that's coming out. It will be running ARM, so no concerns there. It will allow devs to port their existing Meta Quest games (which are Android APKs) very easily.

For ARM to x86 I was using LibHoudini, for x86 to ARM I don't see the point. I mean, most apk are built for ARM.

People have also been calling Waydroid dead for a while now which I dont know how true it is.

https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/graphs/contributors What? It don't look dead at all.

In theory, you should be able to just play Fortnite on linux this way, but I haven't been able to get it to launch like this guy did.

I was able to get it to launch but got an anticheat error when I tried to join a game ):

Pretty sure Waydroid uses the x86 image of LineageOS, cus last time I used it (like a year or more ago) I had to get x86 version of APKs I wanted to install.

Latest release was 2 weeks ago. Not sure how "dead" that is.

Electr- no, wait.

I think they should've called it Electron, since a Proton is a specific particle (or more accurately specific combination of 3 Quarks = Baryon) while Leptons are a whole class of particles (electron, myon, tauon, Neutrinos).

I know Electron is already taken by the JavaScript Software Framework Tool, but still.

Gluon would be a great name to combine all these different tools with each other, where the correct Proton/Lepton/FEX or other (future) translation layers are used automatically, so the user doesn't need to know that there a different technologies under the hood depending on what your trying to run

I think it would be easier to beef up Flatpak's permissions system than to become reliant on Google

Doesn't flatpak achieve similar? Won't ask for permission at runtime though.

I don't get it either.

First thing that comes to my mind is that one-off unmantained and cant be played anymore Dead Space game. Heard that it was great before they killed the support for it.

No :)

Idk maybe, but it might be interesting for non game applications like AR apps and such

I recommend starting your game search here friend. https://f-droid.org/en/categories/games/

I play so many interesting touch screen rhythm game that simply not being released on PC :)

There are also region-locked games from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and other region if you like specific multimedia franchise which you can get via QooApp or other third-party store.