A couch-gaming OS based on Big Picture streaming
Game Master
Play Steam, GoG, and Epic games with one steamy and epic OS.
Since our tender youth, my buddies and I have been huge fans of local co-op games. We still are, however – even though independent game options have greatly improved – the problem of how to get all the hardware to work on a regular laptop running Linux remains. And as customers have seen ever-expanding options for games and consoles, a need has arisen for a common starting ground. ChimeraOS is an atomic Linux distribution built on Arch and released under the MIT license. The goal of ChimeraOS is to provide an open and extendable foundation for launching and playing games. ChimeraOS also implements a gamepad input system that allows you to remap gamepad input to mouse and keyboard inputs.
Visually speaking, ChimeraOS is similar to SteamOS. Both systems use the sweet and beautiful OpenGamepadUI (Figure 1), which defines itself as "… a free and open source game launcher and overlay written using the Godot Game Engine 4 and designed with a gamepad native experience in mind" [1].
Figure 1: Though far from complete, OpenGamepadUI offers all of the basic options any modern gamer could ever need.
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