It's based on vulkan, which means that it has low enough level access to the GPU that I think it's fair to call libraries implemented on top of it "native". Mos

It's based on vulkan, which means that it has low enough level access to the GPU that I think it's fair to call libraries implemented on top of it "native". Most GPU drivers have some kind of translation for directx already, and there's no inherent reason why the open source directx implementation has to perform worse than the GPU implementation of directx. I hear that the open source dx11 implementation actually beats AMD's DX11 implementation in some cases. So yeah, vulkan is neat and opens up a whole lot for the linux world. In the future you'll probably see userspace implementations of opengl on top of vulkan, maybe even CUDA implemented on AMD gpus, although I'm not sure how practical that is. Also a whole lot of exciting GPU sharing tech, accessing GPUs inside of VMs for example. DirectX will come to linux, but it won't be thanks to microsoft. You can thank valve hedging their bets on the microsoft store for that.