As someone who has FINALLY made the switch to contribute to that (all it took was several whole days of the summer devoted to constructing a Void environment from scratch to host VMs with GPU sharing), I gotta say the SteamDeck must be putting up gooood numbers, cause there's no way enough people full-time switched.
frog
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As it turns out, GVM is still a live project! Not sure why their site is down, seems like just a lot of old documentation links to a site they decided not to use. After asking around the discord it seems like LibVF.IO isn't a dead project exactly, but the only way to work with up-to-date things is to manually find all the tools it uses and set everything up yourself. The teams working on all of that stuff are a lot more focused on functionality than public guides and documentation.
tldr; The space isn't dead! Just low-population, and busy making things actually work.
I for one am pretty excited for this stuff to become more accessible, anyone else? I'm trying to wrap my head around the whole setup they envision so I can maybe help contribute, so if anyone is in the space and wants to give a run down on the whole process of getting a vGPU setup and into a VM, that would be a good addition to this thread!
They want to go back to the days of websites requiring internet explorer... just this time with their browser. Even though getting away from that culture is most of the reason people ever switched to chrome. I will say though, just using firefox for everything you can isn't enough of a protest. If this goes the way Google (Alphabet I guess) wants it to, you bank will require you to use a browser with DRM. You will be forced to use a browser whose source code you can't verify as secure, to access your bank. And that is where the protest lines need to be drawn. If your bank does that? Send your message. Close the account. Take back your money. Now I'd personally do this for everything possible, but that would be a looooot of time spent getting very little across to companies that don't care if you visit their site. Taking money from banks though? Yeah it might be a whole process where you gotta request it, verify in person, wait a week to get the cash, and THEN close it, but so what? A couple hours of doing stuff and then a week of business as usual before a couple more hours opening a new bank account. That's more than worth doing to send a REAL message.