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> Raymond is correct in one key part of his blog. I do think the era of the desktop OS wars is ending. Mhm. Let's repeat this when percentage of Windows usage
by shmerl 6y ago
> Raymond is correct in one key part of his blog. I do think the era of the desktop OS wars is ending.
Mhm. Let's repeat this when percentage of Windows usage will be much lower and there will be more games released for Linux on day one and MS will stop swallowing Linux friendly studios like inXile and Obsidian. Right now I don't see it being the case by far.
MS is still very hostile to Linux gaming with DirectX lock-in and platform politics. The above claim just ignores reality.
- cptnapalm 6y agoDuring the initial discussion on the kernel mailing list regarding MS bringing in some DX related stuff, there was mentioned (although seemingly no one really picked up on it) an internal discussion at MicroSoft of porting DX12 to Linux with no Windows required. https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/1527 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/1527
- shmerl 6y agoThey never said they'll open source it though. So I'd say no, thanks. I don't really trust them doing the right thing. If they wanted, they could join the Vulkan effort which is already cross platform. They never cared which clearly demonstrates where their interests lie. The proper progress is for such lock-in to be replaced with Vulkan which is by design an open and cross platform API, not to proliferate blobs on Linux.