Wine Makes It Possible To Run Vulkan Windows Programs On Linux (phoronix.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @03:01AM from the raise-a-glass-to-the-developers dept.

The cool Wine-related news of the week isn't just for Android Remix; an anonymous reader writes with some news applicable to a wider set of users: While no Windows-only Vulkan games have yet to be released, Wine developers are ready and have worked out experimental support for wrapping Vulkan Windows programs on Linux. Assuming you have a Vulkan Linux driver, the latest Wine-Staging build allows for Vulkan Windows programs/games to be dynanically translated and run on Linux 32-bit and 64-bit. Wine's Vulkan wrapper is passing all Khronos conformance tests, but hopefully the ever-expanding Linux game catalog will make this 10k+ lines of code not necessary moving into the future.

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Re:Very excited! by ledow · 2016-03-22 03:30 · Score: 2, Informative

1% of Steam gamers, given the recent hardware/software survey.
That's 120,000 players playing JUST at this moment, and probably 1.25 million "active" Steam accounts, by the latest stats that Valve release.
You can keep mocking, but in terms of games available to them, it's an upward slide.
I remember when people used to mock Linux for not having a "proper GUI", couldn't join Windows networks, etc. etc. etc. Turns out, it's one of the world's most profusely deployed operating systems, in various guises.