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Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

I always thought it would have been cool if some rogue and disgruntled programmer with the skills to do so, built DirectX and other Windows proprietary stuff natively into a Linux distro illegally.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That actually happened and it wasn't illegal. There was gallium9 project that literally implemented DirectX9 natively in the open source graphics stack.

    But the translation layer was so much easier to maintain and develop that gallium9 was discontinued

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If it wasn't illegal, it couldn't have been that cool. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Well Wine devs said they won't support that due to amount of code to maintain. At the time that was weird decision since it required passthrugh to driver, not full translation (similar to what now wine does with Vulkan games) but I think in the long term they were correct

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