Rosenzweig, known for her Panfrost and Apple M1/M2 GPU driver work is now contracted by Valve to work on graphics driver development! Sounds like great news for Valve’s push for Linux gaming.
Rosenzweig, known for her Panfrost and Apple M1/M2 GPU driver work is now contracted by Valve to work on graphics driver development! Sounds like great news for Valve’s push for Linux gaming.
@Kaldo @sdx Even though #Valve is maintaining #Proton, which is based on #Wine, I think projects like #DXVK and #GalliumNine would not exist or have come this far if it weren’t for Valve.
I think Valve’s contribution to the #Linux world is very indirect, but cannot be denied.
Did you set the Hashtags yourself? Sorry but I find them pretty annoying.
They’re probably replying from mastodon and using the tags for discoverability
Gallium Nine definitely existed prior to Valve’s involvement, but they funded DXVK for sure and DXVK replaced Nine for all intents and purposes. Nine was a great early attempt at bringing fast D3D9 to Linux but required custom drivers and didn’t work for all GPUs. Valve’s efforts have still been very noteworthy on Linux, over the past 15 years Linux gaming has gone from a pipe dream outside of a select few OpenGL-based games to a true competitor in the gaming OS space and it’s in big part thanks to Valve.