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.

  • ksynwaOP
    2·
    4 years ago

    yeah that’s how i see it too. There isn’t much point in all this from a free software perspective. Just a way out for Valve in case of Microsoft locking down their platform as others have stated.

    • ster
      2·
      4 years ago

      I mean it definitely helps to drag people kicking and screaming over to the dark side, since often gaming is the big thing that people would miss too much on Linux