Valve is investing a lot of resources in Wine/Proton. dxvk is being actively maintained which is very good. Same with Vulkan.
For how long do you think this can go on? I can’t think of it as a profitable venture which is unfortunately necessary for a project to have a long life. Especially with many newer AAA games not having Wine compatibility (correct me if I am wrong here) because of reliance of DirectX 12 or some ring-0 level anticheat. With the hegemony of Microsoft on consumer PC market and especially PC gaming, I don’t know how long the current momentum will persist, though I am grateful for the work done so far.
Some people have been working on wine patches that support EAC (epic’s kernel level anticheat). Recently some games have started producing good results with it.
If Epic allows the patches, then this is gonna be big. Lots of gamers are held back from switching to Linux only for a few games with EAC.
Yeah I know some people who will not switch until EAC games work, dual booting is too inconvenient for a lot (including me but I chose linux). I really think that once EAC works on linux then we will see a surge of new linux users.