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Wine Makes It Possible To Run Vulkan Windows Programs On Linux (phoronix.com)
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.
Even though the article is about things I don't use, I'm pretty sure this is what was meant by "news for nerds". The only way to be sure to reach that definition consistently is to post Linux news. It doesn't matter if the article has equivalents or analogs that don't involve Linux, or if those analogs are boring. The important thing is that if Slashdot isn't consistently like standing around a water cooler at the top of some D&D Wizard Tower, then it's just not slashdotty.
"Stratigraphically the origin of agriculture and thermonuclear destruction will appear essentially simultaneous" -- Lee
"Lack of support for Linux games doesn't hold Windows back, but somehow lack of support for Windows games does hold Linux back. It's an unfair double standard, but it is what it is."
Here let me fix it for you.
The lack of AAA class games for Linux are holding it back. The lack of AAA class games for OS/X are holding it back. Windows has the most AAA class games.
Name 3 great games for Linux that are not available for Windows?
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You're trolling, but I'll take the bait. Linux still lacks a proper GUI. Even the big wigs like Gnome and KDE all have parts that make you say, "This was cobbled together by amateurs." And, despite the initial surge of Linux users who flooded Steam when it was opened to them, it's remained stagnant ever since. Fear not, there's still plenty left to mock about Linux with surely more to come. Indeed it is widely deployed, as a no-cost, drop-in replacement for unix. Really, not much has changed.
Windows doesn't have a proper GUI, either. There are inconsistencies all over the place (marvel at Windows 8/8.1/10 having two control panels f'rinstance) .