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0 pointspjmlp1y ago0 comments

There is zero pressure on the devs, as it is currently, they target Windows and Valve does the work if they care to make it work, just like IBM tried with OS/2 and its "Runs Windows better than Windows" campaign.

Also good luck supporting DirectX 12 Ultimate features not available on Vulkan, or what Microsoft and NVidia just announced at CES, AI Shaders.

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wqaatwt1y ago· 2 in thread

> Also good luck supporting

If Nvidia and game developers care about supporting Linux they’ll try to figure something out.

If they don’t they won’t. But surely the cost required to do so is lower when targeting Wine/Proton than native Linux?

If they are unwilling to do that when the cost is relatively low (or at least e.g. making these new features toggle-able/optional) they certainly wouldn’t even provide a native Linux if Proton wasn’t a thing.

pjmlpOP1y ago

Playstation is based of FreeBSD and Android NDK has OpenGL ES, Vulkan, OpenSL ES, OpenMAX.

Porting is relatively easy for those studios, they don't because that development costs of having a Linux build and QA isn't worth it.

With Valve pushing WINE/Proton is even better, they don't need to care at all that Linux exists, Valve will do the work for free for them.

Which as IBM discovered, isn't really the future proofing way to build an ecosystem with someone's else OS.

wqaatwt1y ago

> isn't worth it.

Exactly. If Valve went the native route why would that have changed?

> Which as IBM discovered

You keep repeating that in every comment but I don’t quite understand how is this some conclusive argument. Especially when you don’t elaborate on what specifically do you think could happen.

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