Although I can't speak on behalf of Strypey, I think the fundamental issue
lies with scope.
Although GOLD is (to be) a distro, there is also a need for accompanying work
with game developers, other distros, and the gaming community
(pro-free-software, anti-open-source, and what-are-you-talking-about
subgroups alike). This work is equally important- even someone with my level
of gaming (non-) experience can see the lack of gaming culture within the
free software community. The participation of numerous groups within the free
software community is required before a distro like GOLD can even *begin* to
pay dividends.
There is also possibly the technical concern of 'weight'- for example, with
Lakka, a completely gutted-out base in OpenELEC allowed for 5-second boot
times. This is obviously not essential, but there's simply no good
justification for the numerous processes that are required by a
general-purpose distro to operate in a gaming one. As such, using Trisquel as
a base is not ideal- something more like an embedded distro would be more
suitable.
