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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.
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I Beta Tested Word Perfect 2000 for Linux, and it really sucked, because unlike the previous version which was a port of a unix version. This was the windows version combined with an early version of Wine, where the code was altered to fix any problems that Wine had at the time. In general it really sucked, it made X11 remote display difficult, it was slow, and buggy even after it went live. The bugs that I did place in it weren't addressed, they were just dismissed as me being too picky. But the screen should be refreshing much faster as a Duel Pentium 200mhz system in 1999 was a rather rocking piece of hardware at the time.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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.
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. Linux gaming, and Windows gaming under Linux, will definitely decrease the barriers to entry to Linux for a lot of power users and gamers. More importantly, this REVERSES the calculus of a game developer- currently the options for cross platform support result in more hassle and cost in order to support the, as you say, 14 Linux gamers- as such many companies often go Windows only. Hell, some of the big names in crowdfunding promise a Linux version and cancel or delay it indefinitely as soon as they get all the money from the passionate few Linux guys, a massive bait and switch. But with relatively seamless support, using an engine that works with Vulkan will let you support Linux for way less effort than it takes today.
So it's not a huge deal, but it is a big deal.
It's not a double standard, Windows is the standard, Linux is not. The hope is the new standard is for all games to be cross platform.
"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) .