alt Hacker News"The next generation of Linux gaming - Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs."
Are we reading the same website?
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I believe you are. Or we are. The quoted line tells me nothing. Is it a new game engine? Or something like winetricks to tune wine, maybe more streamlined? Or is it a some kind of app store? App launcher?
It is the site made like a presentation, in my experience they are all suck and like a real presentation are impossible to comprehend without accompanying speech.
I agree with the author. Is that an OS image you put on a machine to make it a game box? Or is it a piece of software you put on your existing Linux? Or a framework for game developers? Not clear.
Here's a thought experiment. What hypothetical piece of technology am I describing?
> Next generation of construction - gezzite makes construction smoother and simpler across various commercial and residential projects.
Ah so it’s a usb C key that adds a Linux friendly GPU for which the drivers are in the kernel?
Or it’s some gaming smoothening software.
Hmm runs on tablets, so it’s an App then… that also runs on htpcs… hmmm…
Did they change the website in the last hour? It now says "The operating system for the next generation of gamers".
So it’s some sort of an application you install on your PC to make game runs smoother?
And/or something like Moonlight/Remote Play?
That could describe a special "gaming-optimized" router.
That’s says nothing about what it actually is.
That could apply to everything from some sort of software service, to a game installer, to a streaming service, to an App Store for cross-platform games. You have to take into account the chaos that is the Internet and the promotional material shit storm of marketing speak. A sentence extremely close to this could easily be found on the top of the Razer Synapse promotional page. Why not lead with a simple description that uniquely describes what THIS is? I work in both development and psychology, and it’s frustrating when tech people make fun of others for not understanding their jargon, but those same people get extremely annoyed when they don’t understand anything outside their area because other fields use unnecessarily indirect and convoluted language. Why don’t we just help each other out and try not to create unnecessary cognitive load, just to understand what something is? It is actually possible without dumping down, it’s just a little framing that is needed.