• MentalEdge
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      21 days ago

      No it isn’t, I didn’t claim it was, and Valve is doing a good bit more than mere pre-configuration.

      Valve is contributing efforts to improve Wine, DXVK, VK3D, shader-cache management, and making their use simple and easy.

      If I figure out how to use Bottles, then in a literary sense it is completely correct to say: I figured out how to run windows software on Linux.

      The sentence doesn’t suddenly become false if I didn’t write every line of code, from kernel to compatibility layer, that my PC is executing to do it.

      • @[email protected]
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        821 days ago

        DXVK is sooo good now I install it for half my games on my Windows machine just for the performance gains

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          119 days ago

          I’ve been doing the same thing, if the performance of a game feels like it could be better I slap that shit in there and it often drops GPU usage by at least half, it’s frankly ridiculous.

    • @[email protected]
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      3421 days ago

      Valve invested time and money in Wine and DXVK. Claiming Valve is not trying to figure out how to run games on Linux because they’re contributing to a project instead of creating a new one from the ground up, then only Linus contributes to the kernel?

    • @[email protected]
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      1721 days ago

      Sometimes you need a few developers getting paid full time to truly get a project like DXVK off the ground. Some of the biggest open source projects wouldn’t even exist without the time and money from companies that actively support it.