Lol when it was first announced, everyone said that people would fork it just to change the name for this reason. I prefer to keep it this way.

I love it! 😄

I'm actually kind of surprised that they're all working together at all. Normally they all wanna have it done their own way and it ends up just being another random project, that everybody loves until the next person creates another project because they want it done another way.

Probably a good news for Linux gaming in general, too.

Yes and no. I could hop on to a 50 year old Unix machine and operate it pretty much the way I use my contemporary Linux computer, thanks to the standard Unix tools being both great and ancient.

Usually linux has parcour in terms of apps.

parcours
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(=trajet) journey (=itinéraire) route (SPORT) (=terrain) course
parcours du combattant assault course
(=tour) [+golf] round
[+ski] run
[+circuit] lap vb

There's a lot of projects to help get Windows games working better on Linux, and this effort is basically all those projects coming together to work on making the 'ultimate' project that will make it easier than ever to game on Linux! :D

ironic

Well the interesting part of this is that they will collaborate on the engine but the frontend will still be independent.

I think this is a sound strategy (if I understood it well) as the key differentiators remain but the hard parts (running the damn things) become collaborative.

This also IMO helps a lot user experience, as dealing with broken scripts, mysterious wine settings and keeping up with version changes makes playing a game a big ordeal compared with other platforms (In some cases like old games, it can be worse).