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Linux gaming is getting faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
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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.
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
If it wasn't illegal, it couldn't have been that cool. 🤷♂️
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