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A fun side-effect of the "general" stability of Windows APIs is that Win32/DX has become a very stable and reliable "universal" API for Linux (and other OSes) v
by TkTech 3y ago
A fun side-effect of the "general" stability of Windows APIs is that Win32/DX has become a very stable and reliable "universal" API for Linux (and other OSes) via the massive amount of work put into Wine/Proton. I keep seeing games drop their Linux-native releases in favor of just shipping for proton.
- hx8 3y agoThe Proton-aware releases often are easier to setup and run better than the Linux-native releases.
- TkTech 3y agoThat's been my experience as well. EU4's Linux-native release has issues with scaling and cursors on ultrawide monitors. Proton version is flawless. There's been quite a few cases for me, like Star Citizen for example, where games perform significantly better under Proton with DXVK than it does on Windows!
- Barrin92 3y agoYes. Someone blogged about this last year and it generated a lot of discussion here as well. https://sporks.space/2022/02/27/win32-is-the-stable-linux-userland-abi-and-the-consequences/ https://sporks.space/2022/02/27/win32-is-the-stable-linux-us...