Quoting: LinasFunny how AMD drivers are better on Linux than on Windows. They should just do the reverse NVIDIA and put the Mesa stack on Windows, and open-source their Windows driver.

Someone was already planning to make radv work on Windows.

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Quoting: x_wingThe review I only see is that Nvidia doesn't follow Linux standards with their drivers.

It's worse than that. Nvidia refuse to upstream their driver and they also hinder the reverse engineered Nouveau from working, making it impossible to replace their blob with open alternative.

It's a purely anti-competitive stance and the reason for it is known well too. Nvidia makes billions on datacneter GPU usage, and they charge industrial users more money for features they lock behind the blob. Open drivers will prevent them from dictating how you can use the GPU.

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There was a recent release on Anniversary Edition on GOG. No Linux version there.

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Quoting: x_wingIs far to be like creating a port from scratch, but it isn't also a straight forward operation.

I'd say cost wise it's a tiny percentage of the Stadia effort itself.

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Stadia addressed all the above already for CDPR.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSadly a lot of the 'do we port to Linux' is politically based more than financially based.

Yes, there is a lot of it. That's what I called above platform politics.

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It's not nonsense because you need to compare resources, not just the amount of work. Small developers have less of them than big companies. So it's a bigger risk for them because of that alone. It's harder to make profit for small developers. Yet they are the ones releasing for Linux, not the huge ones who are making way more money and have more resources for it.

Besides, the work and expenses point was addressed above. They already have invested needed effort and spent the money to make it work on Stadia,

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There is nothing disproven there. The claim that if there are crooks around and they will always be around and you need to accept them is not only a defeatist attitude, it simply helps proliferation of it. So you can keep at it or think that's "pragmatism". Others don't need to accept that.

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That's just demagoguery. Crooked practices might be around whenever. That's never a reason to accept them.

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Quoting: elmapulthere is no such a thing as an world without exclusives

That's a strange argument. I don't see a reason to accept crooked practices or to say "that's how it should be". No, thanks. We don't need it.

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