Does this guy look like Trump on purpose?

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionI really wish that either Steam client would go open source or that Itch would gain access to higher profile games.

Higher chances are with GOG publishing Galaxy spec, and then community making a FOSS client.

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Also, I expect in the future it will be much easier for Wine to implement DX12 → Vulkan translation, than all the humongous effort for DX → OpenGL. And Vulkan based Windows games should be even more straightforward.

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Quoting: sarmadIf Doom is already going to support Vulkan, why not support Linux as well?

Because it's Bethesda. Times of idSoftware are long gone.

This, like I've said before, there's a lot more to a game than a graphics API. Anyone who says Vulkan will make more Linux ports is just wrong.

Vulkan can make it cheaper, both when Vulkan Windows game is ported to Linux and when DX12 one is (because they are close). So potentially it does help. But it's not a magic pill for automatic portability of course.

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Quoting: sarmadIf Doom is already going to support Vulkan, why not support Linux as well?

Because it's Bethesda. Times of idSoftware are long gone.

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See https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap [External Link] (search for Vulkan there).

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It's rather simple. UE and Unity will get Vulkan support (UE sooner than Unity), and many in-development games will implicitly start using it in result. That's already quite a lot. Other engines also will catch up at some point.

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For the sake of discussion, Android is indeed not [glibc] Linux. It's bionic [External Link] one. And bionic is bad news. That's all that should be said. Android is pretty useless for us, when Linux gaming is concerned. It only benefits things indirectly, i.e. may be wider adoption of Vulkan, some improvements to the kernel and so on. Huge rift on libc level and completely different graphics stack makes it "not Linux" for me.

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Gaming wise Linux already is probably ahead of OS X, especially for high end gaming. Apple's hardware simply can't cope with the times, and their software is even worse (OpenGL is in bit rot state there, no Vulkan support coming and so on). Expect OS X gaming usage to plummet going forward.

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Weirdly, statcounter stopped even listing Linux. Most of those stats aren't that useful.

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