ID made it pretty clear that they won't be porting their games over, so unless that has for some reason changed we won't be seeing Doom 4 on Linux and thus I think we shouldn't care.

I'm afraid you could be right but is there some sort of official or semi-official statement from ID regarding this issue?
If they already have a running Vulkan version, not releasing it on linux (and other compatible platforms) wouldn't seem like a very logical step to me.

They have never officially supported Linux, never actually sold Linux copies (just provided Linux exe downloads) and now Bethesda own them.

Hell will freeze first.

It's still good news for those like me interested in the game. Vulkan support could mean a very good wine experience.

It's surprising that id Software is still using OpenGL (the only game developer in the world I guess) after Carmack's departure... I thought they already switched to DX...

It's good publicity for Vulkan in any case.

Quoting: manus76I'm afraid you could be right but is there some sort of official or semi-official statement from ID regarding this issue?
If they already have a running Vulkan version, not releasing it on linux (and other compatible platforms) wouldn't seem like a very logical step to me.

John Carmack made some rather disparaging remarks about Linux around the time Rage was in development, and the company never really changed its stance.

hmmm, if you look [here](ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom3/linux/), there is support for Doom3... started two months after offical windows release...

Doom 1 and other titels are supported too... it's not an elegant way of support, but it runs native...

For sure it will be better if Steam has a Linux version for easy install, but at the time when this games were released there was no steam for Linux...

I think positive and I would say they will support linux in the future... Vulkan can be a big game changer and I think it will be...